Re: applying _only_ security updates

[Rob Mahurin <robm@mad.scientist.com>]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:32:20PM +1000, Price, Tim wrote:
> Regardless,
> 
> Is it possible to do?
> 
> I ask because I am running a potato system with many packages from woody,
> and some security packages take longer to get into testing then they do to
> get into stable.

I've heard that the more recent versions of apt have a feature called
"pinning," wherewith you can request certain packages to come only
from certain sources, or some such magic.  Perhaps that would help
you.

Rob

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