sbuild-hold(1)

sbuild-hold1

Hold packages in an sbuild chroot

Usage

sbuild-hold [{-h | --help | -V | --version}] CHROOT [PACKAGE1 [PACKAGE2 [PACKAGEn]]]

sbuild-unhold [{-h | --help | -V | --version}] CHROOT [PACKAGE1 [PACKAGE2 [PACKAGEn]]]

Overview

sbuild-hold and sbuild-unhold set and unset the dpkg hold status for the specified packages, respectively.

Options

Actions

-h, --help

Display this manual.

-V, --version

Print version information.

Chroot and package selection

CHROOT

The chroot to use. Note that ‘o’, ‘s’, ‘t’, ‘u’ and ‘e’ may be used as abbreviations for ‘oldstable’, ‘stable’, ‘testing’, ‘unstable’ and ‘experimental’, respectively.

PACKAGE

The packages for which the hold status is to be changed.

Examples

To hold the libc6 package in the unstable chroot:

% sbuild-hold unstable libc6

Releases

9 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 8 times.

  1. 5.0
  2. 6.0
  3. 7
  4. 8
  5. 9
  6. 10
  7. 11
  8. 12
  9. 13

Authors

Roger Leigh.

From sbuild 0.89.3+deb13u4 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.