Re: smooth upgrades

[andreimpopescu@gmail.com (Andrei Popescu)]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 11:06:54AM -0800, tom arnall wrote:
> On Thursday 21 December 2006 10:45, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 10:00:05AM -0800, tom arnall wrote:
> > > kloro@debian:~$ fnd apt_preferences
> > > /usr/share/man/es/man5/apt_preferences.5.gz
> > > /usr/share/man/fr/man5/apt_preferences.5.gz
> > > /usr/share/man/man5/apt_preferences.5.gz
> > > /usr/share/man/pt_BR/man5/apt_preferences.5.gz
> > > /usr/share/apt-listbugs/debian/apt_preferences.rb
> > >
> > > i.e., i don't have an apt_preferences.
> >
> > I don't think you should. man apt_preferences refers to the file
> > /etc/apt/preferences which AFAIK is used for pinning.
> 
> 
> 
> what are the consequences if i don't have an apt.conf in /etc/apt? or don't 
> have a 'APT::Default-Release <version>'  in it?

AFAIK apt will try to upgrade your packages to the newest version
it knows about. That means, if you have 'stable' and 'testing' in your
sources than it would upgrade everything to testing (on a dist-upgrade).
If you add unstable than it upgrades to unstable.

Regards,
Andrei
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