Re: is it possible to change apt-get's access priorities?
On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 20:14:05 -0500, Jacob S. wrote:
> If I'm understanding you properly, you want apt-pinning to work with 4
> repositories: 1) CDs, 2) stable on debian.org servers, 3) testing on
> debian.org server and 4) unstable on debian.org servers.
This is really a good and comprehensive article. Some further questions:
In order to get all stable, testing and unstable from the same server,
I read that the the deb source line should be altered (but no how). Could
you give us an example?
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=stable
> Pin-Priority: 900
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 60
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=unstable
> Pin-Priority: 60
>
[...]
> It should also get Woody's packages off the
> CDs instead of the internet whenever possible.
Can you explain this a bit please? The first line of my
/etc/apt/sources.list (testing) is
deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main.
I think to pick cdrom first, you have to give sarge/woody the top
priority, right?
> You can also set the following line in /etc/apt/apt.conf, but I didn't
> find it essential when I was using it:
>
> APT::Default-Release "stable";
Interesting, that was what the article I was reading suggested...
> Also, there were a couple of large library upgrades between Woody and
> Sarge (testing), such as libc6.
How big the difference is between testing and unstable? Anybody knows?
Thanks
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