Re: Experimental not installing
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 04:50:29PM -0600, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 02:22:16PM -0700, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> > But apt-get upgrade is just leaving the 2.2-alpha1-3 versions of
> > packages and not upgrading to 2.2-cvs20010503-1. apt-cache even shows
> > the 2.2-cvs20010503-1 versions of packages.
> it's because experimental is set to not automatically upgrade as there are
> stuff in there that is truely experimental. You can either do it the nasty
> way apt-get install package/experimental or wait until I do my next upload.
Or you can probably use apt's pinning mechanism to make it auto-upgrade
kde/experimental packages. Something like:
Package: *kde*
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 900
might work. Don't blame me if it breaks your system though. :)
Cheers,
aj
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