Re: correct way to use pinning with stable, backports and unstable

[Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at>]

* John Holland <jholland@vin-dit.org> [2013-04-07 00:28:51 CEST]:
> I think I may not be doing this correctly. I want to install stuff with
> a preference for stable, then backports, finally unstable. I think I
> will do this with a file in /etc/apt/preferences.d. Can someone tell me
> the correct things to have in there?

 For backports you don't need a preferences file.  After you installed a
specific package version from backports, the package will be enabled
automatically to pull updates from there, too.

 Mixing unstable into the round is not a good idea, and will give you
big troubles after a while when you start to pull in libc6 from there
and other (central) libraries.  Don't do it.

 Enjoy,
Rhonda
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