Re: EOL of KDE SC 4.4.2 in qt-kde.debian.net
On Saturday 10 April 2010 16.04:02 Modestas Vainius wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On šeštadienis 10 Balandis 2010 16:38:38 Michael Schuerig wrote:
> > However, doing the same with -t experimental updates the entire system
> > to experimental, which is presumably not what most people want. Is
> > there a way to only upgrade KDE-related packages from experimental?
>
> Bump priority of experimental to 101 (/etc/apt/preferences):
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=experimental
> Pin-Priority: 101
>
> and do a normal dist-upgrade:
>
> # aptitude dist-upgrade
... which does exactly what Michael wants to avoid.
You'd have to read the apt_preferences manpage, but from memory there is no
way to use patterns in the Package: line (ideally you could use the kind of
patterns aptitude uses in search queries, namely "?source-package(^kde)" -
I'm quite sure this is not possible but you'd have to check.
What I always do (since I use aptitude in any case and carefully check what
I update) is going through aptitude's package list using the search query I
mentioned above.
A "aptitude search " | cut | ... | xargs aptitude install -t experimental"
kind of hack is left as an exercise to the reader and is the best
possibility I can think of just now.
cheers
-- vbi
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