On Sam, 2003-01-25 at 00:05, Erik Steffl wrote: > but the point is that pinning is not very good because you either > bring a number of important packages from unstable (libc6, perl etc) or > you simply cannot use it. reading of the manual page and checking the > apt-listchanges does not solve the problem. i.e. you recommend pinning, > person reads the manpage, tries pinning and finds out that it was pretty > much pointless excercise because it would upgrade large part of the > system to unstable. or yet another wording: Adrian Bunk wasn't > complaining about system actually upgrading packages but about system > trying to upgrade packages. Ah, then I misunderstood. I agree, but I don't really see a better way - for me, pinning works, but I'm prepared to run a half-unstable system. Those not wanting to pull libc/unstable etc. should probably just recompile from source, which becomes ever easier with apt-src and apt-build. cheers -- vbi -- featured product: SpamAssassin - http://spamassassin.org
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