Re: How to pin certain packages from experimental?
* Marc Haber [Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:40:46 +0100]:
> Hi,
> On a development system, I'd like to have experimental and unstable in
> the sources.list, and to have experimental pinned down to a priority
> tha experimental is never considered. For certain packages, I'd like
> apt to consider experimental as well, taking whatever is newer from
> experimental and unstable.
Not sure if it will solve your problem, but I was once advised to pin
all of experimental to 101. This has the effect of not installing
experimental packages by default, but once you manually pull one (with
-t experimental), that package is "tracked", i.e. upgraded when a new
upload to experimental happens.
> Package: exim4-daemon-light
> Pin: release o=Debian,a=experimental
> Pin-Priority: 555
Perhaps you should've used 500 here, so that a version comparison
happens between unstable and experimental (both at 500). If not,
you're stating that you prefer exim4 packages from experimental
regardless of their version.
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Adeodato Simó
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A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
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