Re: How to run testing and stay sane?

[Cam Ellison <camellison@dccnet.com>]

* Nathan E Norman (nnorman@micromuse.com) wrote:
> 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
> 

I presume this is in woody.  It doesn't show up in my man pages.

Cam

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