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Re: How to run testing and stay sane?



On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 07:58:03AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> 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"?

man 5 apt_preferences

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