Re: Rejig apt Config Now That Woody = stable ?

[Nick <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk>]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 08:11:17 -0400 (EDT), Walter Tautz wrote:

>On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Nick wrote:
>
>> 
>> I've been using the "pinning" method to ensure I get updates from
>> testing unless I specify unstable, so I currently have :
>> 
>> =========================< cut >===========================
[...]
>> MYBOX:/etc/apt# cat preferences
>> Package: *
>> Pin: release a=testing
>> Pin-Priority: 900
>> 
>> Package: *
>> Pin: release a=unstable
>> Pin-Priority: 50
>> =========================< cut >===========================
>
>Cool. I've been looking to do something like this.

The preferences file supplies the magic.  With settings like those
above you can do
      apt-get install foo
to get package foo from testing, and 
      apt-get -t unstable install foo
to get package foo from unstable.

>> Presumably, with these config settings a straight apt-get will now get
>> me packages from Sarge ..
[...]
>If you want to run testing by default then leave your current setting in place.

Sorry - I should have said: I want to stay with Woody - I don't want
to keep up with the cutting edge - I just want nice stable Debian 3.0
for now.  I shall amend my sources.list to specify Woody, and remove
my preferences file for now as I don't need the pinning magic until I
start dipping into Sarge & unstable.

Thanks for the help.

Nick Boyce
Bristol, UK
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