[19:38] <balloons> DammitJim, look into apt-pinning
[19:59] <DammitJim> thanks balloons 
[19:59] <DammitJim> not apt-mark hold ?
[20:00] <balloons> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto explains it all
[20:01] <balloons> but yea I guess that's the idea if you only want to hold one package forever. 
[20:20] <DammitJim> balloons, do you know if I can make it not update any packages that samba relies on?
[20:20] <balloons> that's why it gets tricky
[20:21] <mhall119> I think you'd have to do this for all the dependencies that matter
[20:21] <balloons> things in the archive will assume current versions and at some point you may have to upgrade
[20:21] <balloons> it's a slippery slope. But with samba you are probably fine. 
[20:21] <balloons> for a little while at least :p
[20:21] <DammitJim> man, the thing is that samba screws with you
[20:21] <DammitJim> they update stuff and things break
[20:22] <DammitJim> but I honestly don't know if it is just the samba package or dependent packages that cause this
[20:22] <DammitJim> most people blame it on just "samba"
[20:23] <balloons> I've not had trouble with samba for some time
[20:23] <balloons> but that's just me.. I know it can be frustrating
[20:23] <mhall119> a samba snappy package is probably going to make this easier all around
[20:24] <balloons> there you go.. you can run multiple versions, only your favorite version and easily rollback to any of them if you wish
[20:24] <DammitJim> what is a samba snappy package?
[20:25] <mhall119> snappy is a new packaging system we're working on
[20:25] <DammitJim> oh gosh
[20:25] <mhall119> it allows developers to package their stuff along with dependencies in an easier way than .deb packages
[20:26] <mhall119> it also allows updating the app and the OS independently of eacher