Re: sources.list: experimental
On 12/02/08 11:39, Sandro Tosi wrote:
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 18:35, Hans-J. Ullrich <hans.ullrich@loop.de> wrote:
adding an experimental source to the sources list (just to install a special
application from this), will an "aptitude upgrade" or "apt-get upgrade"
overwrite ALL installed packages ?
No, you need to explicitly request to install packages from
experimental using "-t experimental" option.
To follow up on that, note how experimental is down at priority 1:
$ apt-cache policy
Package files:
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
release a=now
500 http://tovid.sourceforge.net unstable/contrib Packages
origin tovid.sourceforge.net
1 http://ftp.debian.org ../project/experimental/non-free Packages
release o=Debian,a=experimental,l=Debian,c=non-free
origin ftp.debian.org
1 http://ftp.debian.org ../project/experimental/contrib Packages
release o=Debian,a=experimental,l=Debian,c=contrib
origin ftp.debian.org
1 http://ftp.debian.org ../project/experimental/main Packages
release o=Debian,a=experimental,l=Debian,c=main
origin ftp.debian.org
500 http://www.debian-multimedia.org unstable/main Packages
release v=None,o=Unofficial Multimedia
Packages,a=unstable,l=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,c=main
origin www.debian-multimedia.org
500 ftp://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/non-free Packages
release o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Debian,c=non-free
origin mirrors.kernel.org
500 ftp://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/contrib Packages
release o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Debian,c=contrib
origin mirrors.kernel.org
500 ftp://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main Packages
release o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Debian,c=main
origin mirrors.kernel.org
Pinned packages:
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