Hold packages in an sbuild chroot
sbuild-hold [-h\[or]--help \[or] -V\[or]--version] CHROOT [PACKAGE1 [PACKAGE2 [PACKAGEn]]]
sbuild-unhold [-h\[or]--help \[or] -V\[or]--version] CHROOT [PACKAGE1 [PACKAGE2 [PACKAGEn]]]
sbuild-hold and sbuild-unhold set and unset the dpkg hold status for the specified packages, respectively.
-h, --help
Display this manual.
-V, --version
Print version information.
CHROOT
The chroot to use. Note that \[oq]o\[cq], \[oq]s\[cq], \[oq]t\[cq], \[oq]u\[cq] and \[oq]e\[cq] may be used as abbreviations for \[oq]oldstable\[cq], \[oq]stable\[cq], \[oq]testing\[cq], \[oq]unstable\[cq] and \[oq]experimental\[cq], respectively.
PACKAGE
The packages for which the hold status is to be changed.
To hold the libc6 package in the unstable chroot:
% sbuild-hold unstable libc6
Roger Leigh.
Copyright \[co] 2006\[en]2007 Roger Leigh <[email protected]>.