Re: Using apt_preferences?
On Sunday 28 October 2001 21:35, John Batistic wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 20:47:36 +0000
>
> John Gay <johngay@eircom.net> wrote:
> > On Sunday 28 October 2001 20:18, John Batistic <johnbat@ihug.co.nz>,
>
> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 19:53:32 +0000
> > >
> > > John Gay <johngay@eircom.net> wrote:
> > > > I wanted to update my testing system to KDE2.2.1 and was usingthe
>
> info
>
> > > > provided by Bruce Miller in his mini-HOW-TO but I'm having problems
>
> with
>
> > > my
> > >
> > > > preferences file. The contents of /etc/apt/preferences is:
> > >
> > > Maybe a silly question John,
> > > but have you upgraded to the unstable version of apt?
> >
> > progeny:/home/jgay# dpkg -l apt
> > ii apt 0.5.4 Advanced front-end for dpkg
>
> Your version of apt is the same as mine
> Your preferences file appears to be the same as mine,
> apart from the blank lines.
>
> -----------------------------
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 777
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=unstable
> Pin-Priority: 333
> -----------------------------
>
> I take it you have both testing and unstable sources in sources.list?
>
Just incase I've overlooked something, I'll include both /etc/apt/preferences
and /etc/apt/sources.list I am hoping it's some type of typo?
I've changed preferences to preferences.bad and just using apt-get install
kde to update to the latest and greatest Ivan has to offer. I just need to
remember to change my sources.list before running alt-get dist-upgrade.
> John Batistic
Cheers,
John Gay
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 777
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 333
#deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free non-US
#deb cdrom:[kde2.1]/ LinuxMagazine/KDE-2.1/debian/binary-i386/
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 1.0 _Progeny_ - Unofficial i386 Binary-1 (20010116)]/ unstable contrib local main non-free
#deb http://archive.progeny.com/progeny newton main contrib non-free
#deb http://archive.progeny.com/progeny updates/newton/
#deb ftp://kde.debian.net/pub/kde potato main crypto optional
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
#deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security potato/updates main contrib non-free
#deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free
#deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates main contrib non-free
#deb http://www.indy.progeny.com/~epg/gnome-1.4rc1/ ./
#deb ftp://ftp.wh9.tu-dresden.de/pub/linux/debian-stuff/KDE2 potato main crypto optional
#deb ftp://ftp.linux.ee/pub/kde.tdyc.com/debian/dists/potato potato main crypto optional
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