Re: pinning and groups of related packages

[Norbert Tretkowski <norbert@tretkowski.de>]

* Jason Lunz wrote:
[...]
> I'm aware I can use "apt-get -t sarge-backports bogofilter", but the
> problem there is that it's temporary. So although I can use -t to
> get apt to prioritize the backports packages the way I want _once_,
> it won't tell me when there are backports.org upgrades available for
> those same packages, right?

Wrong. If you installed a package with 'apt-get -t sarge-backports
install foo', you'll get updates from backports.org for that package
with just running 'apt-get upgrade'.

I couldn't believe it myself, but I tested it last weekend, and it
worked. :-)

Norbert