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Re: Early draft of release notes



On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:06:50AM -0600, Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com> was heard to say:
> Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > What's new in the distribution:
> > 
> > - apt now has support for "pinning", which can be used to track stable,
> >   while easily pulling selected updated packages from unstable or
> >   testing.
> 
> Is there a nice HOWTO for this?  I got this working only after a fair
> amount reading terse documentation and searching mailing lists.  In
> the end I just copied what somebody else said "worked for them"
> without really understanding it.

  See apt_preferences(5)?

  Daniel

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