Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 02:23:38PM +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > >>I've been using sarge for some time, and i've never quite got my >>apt-pinning right. It's all fairly straightforward - i want to track >>stable, use volatile for the important things, and occasionally pull >>packages from unstable. > > > If you "occasionally pull packages from unstable", you will end up > with unstable libraries pretty fast, combining the disadvantages of > stable and unstable without gaining the advantages. I'd récommend > against doing so. I'm always careful about that. Mostly it's for my non-Internet-exposed home desktop. My production firewalls & web servers don't include unstable in their sources.list. >>Yet 'apt-get dist-upgrade' tells me there is nothing to upgrade. Any ideas? > > apt-cache policy and apt-cache policy <package> can be of great help. Thanks for that - i hadn't seen that option before. Looks like the problem is apt-show-versions - it shows packages in unstable as being upgradable, but since volatile overrides unstable in my preferences file, they're not upgrading. So it looks like things are working as expected. -- Paul <http://paulgear.webhop.net> -- Did you know? Most email-borne viruses use a false sender address, so you cannot track down the sender using that address. Instead, keep your virus scanning software up-to-date and just delete any suspicious emails you receive.
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