Re: apt question

[Radu Muschevici <ext2@gmx.ch>]

On Sun, 25 Mar, 2001 at 19:37:04 +0100, Jitse Niesen wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Radu Muschevici wrote:
> 
> > is it posible to have two distro lines in /etc/apt/sources.list
> > like this:
> > 
> > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
> > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
> > 
> > and prevent apt from taking every package from unstable since it
> > has the newer version.
> > [...]
> 
> You can add the following line to /etc/apt/apt.conf:
> 
>    APT::Default-Release "testing";
> 
> This corresponds to the -t option of apt-get. According to apt-get's
> manual page:
> 
>    This  option controls the default input to the pol-
>    icy engine, it creates a default  pin  at  priority
>    990 using the specified release string.
> 
> I couldn't find further documentation about this 'policy engine', but it
> worked for me.
that's what I needed! Thanks.

Radu