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Re: sources.list directory specification



On Saturday 03 September 2011 10:35:53 Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 03/09/11 08:27, Lisi wrote:

> So - you are just doing as I suggested. Being selective (except you were
> doing it long before I suggested it, and I was only echoing the
> documentation)
>
> "Hidden" in my original post was this:-
>
> >>> Yes - though you might consider reading up on pinning.
>
> ;-p

Yes, I saw that - but I in my turn was obviously not making myself clear. ;-)

"Hidden" in my post was the point that I did nothing.  Debian did it without 
my lifting a finger!  (Stars and emphasis added now.)

> > installed from there.  The marvellous ***Debian sets the pinning
> > appropriately __automatically__:***
> >
> > /etc/apt/preferences
> >
> > Package: * Pin: release a=lenny-backports Pin-Priority: 200

Lisi


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