Re: Potato and a half

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu>]

On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 11:01:00AM +0200, Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> was heard to say:
> > Just an AOL on my part, although i''m more or less running potato and
> > a half with selected apps from woody.
> I wonder if we could provide a reasonable way to manage this.
> For instance I would like to set for instance X, Apache, Jserv to "hold"
> in deselect but like to use PostgreSQL from woody and also want to try
> any other new packages to get in touch with the latest development.
> 
> Any hints how to manage this?
> 
> Kind regards

  There are fields and routines in the apt library which the documentation
claims are to be eventually used for this.  The idea is (I think) that you'll
be able to give a general release target, which automatic upgrades will not
deviate from, and also override this on an individual basis for packages.
  Allowing packages to be downgraded is fairly easy, actually; it's
intelligently suppressing upgrades that may or may not be a problem.

  You could also turn auto-upgrade off in apt, but then you'd have to manually
upgrade anything you wanted upgraded :(

  Daniel

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