Subject: install: dosen't honer dpkg system and no option to make it.

From: Mike Mestnik <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 23:33:18 -0600

Package: coreutils
Version: 5.0.91-2
Severity: wishlist

It would be nice if it would do something on the order of...
{; # Stdout redirect
dpkg -S <destination file name> |
  cut -f1 -d: |
    tr '\n' ' '
echo hold; # Mark the pkg as held.
} | dpkg --set-selections

... If an env-var was set.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux overrun 2.6.0-test9-1-386 #1 Sun Oct 26 22:32:52 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii  libacl1                     2.2.21-1     Access control list shared library
ii  libattr1                    2.4.12-1     Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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