Re: apt: pin: how to debug?

[Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 08:26:55PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Speaking of pins, does anyone have a pin setup to make apt follow
> testing, but let you override to get stuff from unstable?

I have /etc/apt/preferences set to:
	Package: *
	Pin: release a=testing
	Pin-Priority: 900

	Package: *
	Pin: release o=Debian
	Pin-Priority: -10

and then do something like:
	apt-get -t unstable install foo

if I want something from unstable. Seems to work okay.

Cheers,
aj

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