Re: Pinning; w: Didn't understand pin type
Try to remove /etc/apt/preferences and try again ...
Oleg
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 11:54, Saviour Of All Soulz wrote:
> Hi everybody, i've been trying to get this pinning working.
> I've got Woody installed and I want to be able to get packages from Sid.
> So I got the tip to try out pinning.
>
> I get an error though, everytime I want to install a package:
>
> ===================
> W: Did not understand pin type release a=testing
> ===================
>
> This is'nt very convenient beacause now I can't do an apt-get dist-upgrade,
> that will install Sid, wich I don't want.
>
> This is my /etc/apt/preferences file:
>
> ===================
> PPackage: *
> Pin: release a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 101
> ===================
>
> This mis my sources.list:
>
> ===================
> ## Woody
>
> deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
> deb http://ftp.debian.nl/debian woody main contrib non-free
> deb http://ftp.debian.nl/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://ftp.debian.nl/debian woody main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://ftp.debian.nl/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib
> non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main
> contrib non-free
>
> # Sid
>
> deb http://ftp.debian.nl/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> deb http://ftp.debian.nl/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib
> non-free deb-src http://ftp.debian.nl/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://ftp.debian.nl/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib
> non-freedeb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main
> contrib nonfree
> ======================
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Tnx in advance
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