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Re: Downgrading from Sid to Sarge ?



On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 15:20 -0500, Mehul Sanghvi wrote:
> 
>     I've been working with what I thought was Sarge.  I noticed today
> that I'm actually
> pulling down packages from unstable (Sid).  How do I ensure that I am
> always using
> Sarge, though at times there might be something in Sid that I might
> want to pull down
> and try out.
> 
> In /etc/apt/apt.conf:
> 
> APT
> {
>   Default-Release "testing";
> };
> 
> 
> This should make sure that I only get from testing aka Sarge, yes ? 

Yes, but it can't do that for packages that are only available in sid,
e.g.

apt-cache policy is your friend.


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