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Re: How to run testing and stay sane?



Hi,
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 07:38:34AM -0700, David Roundy wrote:
> You can have both unstable and testing in your sources.list, and then set
> up apt preferences as so:
> 
> $ cat /etc/apt/preferences
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 900
>  
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=unstable
> Pin-Priority: 101
 

Where is this nice feature documented?  Curious.  In the source ??? ;-)
What is "Pin" and "Pin-Priority"?

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