How to not install/remove pve-esxi-import-tools

[Alecz]

For those of us that have no need to migrate from ESXi, import ESXi VMs, etc, how can we not have this installed?

During a routine system update, I get this:

apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  proxmox-kernel-6.5.13-5-pve-signed pve-esxi-import-tools python3-pyvmomi
The following packages will be upgraded:

How can I run apt upgrade without installing the unwanted/unneeded pve-esxi-import-tools package?


I didn't want to add this to the https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/n...ng-vmware-esxi-based-virtual-machines.144023/ thread because it would easily get lost and hard to find via search.

I Googled this, but all the results are for people that need help using the tool rather than getting rid of it.

The doc page doesn't seem to cover this case either:
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migrate_to_Proxmox_VE

 

[Alecz]

even if I am answering my own question here, I hope it will help others in the future:

# apt-mark hold pve-esxi-import-tools
pve-esxi-import-tools set on hold.

This prevents the package from being installed in the first place or after it has been manually removed.

However, it also blocks other packages:

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  proxmox-kernel-6.5.13-5-pve-signed
The following packages have been kept back:
  libpve-storage-perl pve-manager
The following packages will be upgraded:

So is it possible to have libpve-storage-perl and pve-manager updates without pve-esxi-import-tools ?