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Re: EOL of KDE SC 4.4.2 in qt-kde.debian.net



On Sunday 11 April 2010 18.41:06 Modestas Vainius wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On sekmadienis 11 Balandis 2010 19:09:08 Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> No, it does exactly what Michael wants (citing apt_preferences(5)):
> 
> 100 < P <=500
>            causes a version to be installed unless there is a version
> available belonging to some other distribution or the installed
>            version is more recent

... for all of experimental.  I understood Michael that he was looking for a 
way to only set this for KDE related packages.

cheers
-- vbi

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