How to "lock" package exclusion?

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Tue Jun 13 14:12:00 GMT 2017


On 6/13/2017 2:39 AM, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote> How can I "lock" package 
to prevent intalling even if it is "required".

There's no supported way to do this, but you can try to trick setup into 
thinking a package is installed by editing /etc/setup/installed.db. 
You'll have to re-do this every time the package is updated.  And, of 
course, you might break something if it turns out that you really do 
need the package.

Ken


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