Re: Any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive

• Tong - <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com> writes:

> Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive?
>
> I just upgraded from Etch to Lenny, and have loads of things to fix,
> keeping tetex from upgrading to texlive will sure ease the transition for
> the moment.

You should put your tetex packages on hold:

# aptitude hold tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-extra

Then try aptitude -s dist-upgrade. If that would still pull in texlive, you are bitten by bug #434731: aptitude will ignore the hold if a package that is _not_ put on hold can only be upgraded by upgrading a package that _is_ on hold. But hopefully that will not be the case.

The migration to texlive will pull in many hundred of megabytes if you have tetex-extra installed. In that case I would recommend to use aptitude's TUI to uninstall it and manually select the texlive packages you want (look in the dependencies of texlive-full). This is how I managed the transition without pulling in too much stuff.

Hope this helps,
Sven

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