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I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.03 - server and I would like to hold upgrades for specific ubuntu packages, it means that apt update & upgrade commands would not affect the specific packages that I would like to preserve. I have used those commands for maintaining the desired packages - Kernel-related packages.

apt-mark hold $(uname -r)
apt-mark hold linux-image-generic-hwe-20.04
apt-mark hold linux-headers-generic-hwe-20.04

commands & kernel version

apt upgrade attempt ended with ignoring the hold that I made:

apt upgrade

tried using aptitude also did not work. enter image description here

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Is there another way from blocking a package from being upgraded from the "apt upgrade command?

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Found out that using an apt-cache preferences file - /etc/apt/preferences solves the issue. Create the file with the desired package name, then use "apt update" for having it applied

user@user:/etc/apt$ cat preferences
Package: linux-image-*
Pin: release *
Pin-Priority: -1

Package: linux-headers-*
Pin: release *
Pin-Priority: -1
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