Re: solved (was Re: project/experimental)

[Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org>]

Bruce Sass wrote:
> Two things: project/experimental is not a release, so it is not
> obvious that Default-Release is the way to handle it; APT treats p/e
> as special, which is not documented -- without explicit pinning
> (pinning is essentially what Default-Release does) APT wants to
> install the highest version it can, unless that version happens to
> come from p/e.
>
> I think this should be documented somewhere; perhaps in Developer's
> Reference 4.6.4.3, since the APT team doesn't seem to think it should
> be in APT's docs.
>
>
> - Bruce

man apt_prefences:
[snip]
CANDIDATE VERSION POLICY
       Internally APT maintains a list of all available versions for 
all packages.  If you place multiple releases  or  vendors  in your 
sources.list(5) file then these features are available. By default APT 
selects the highest version from all automatic sources. Some sources, 
such as project/experimental are marked Not Automatic - these fall to 
the bottom of the selection pile.


This is 0.5.4 though...

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