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Re: Early draft of release notes



Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> writes:

> 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)?

That isn't a HOWTO, it is some of the terse documentation I
mentioned.  :-)


-- 
matt



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