Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 19:05:49 -0500, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote:
> Are you really sure that setting the priorities of stable, testing and
> unstable to 900, 800 and 700, respectively, we would be able to have a
> mixed system? IMHO, with this configuration, and entries for stable,
> testing and unstable in sources.list, if a dist-upgrade is run then apt
> will update every current installed package to the lastest version (if
> avaiable) in unstable.
No, it takes the package (newer than the installed version) that has
the highest priority.
> To be stick on stable we should set priority to some value greater
> than 1000, but on the other hand in this case we couldn't upgrade
> unstable packages installed using -t. Am I wrong?
Priorities above 1000 are there if you want to allow to downgrade.
IMHO, they are useful only for pinning particular packages.
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