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sbuild-hold

hold packages in an sbuild chroot

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

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

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

To hold the libc6 package in the unstable chroot:

% sbuild-hold unstable libc6 

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