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Re: woody apt: dowloading from different releases



* Tal Danzig (tal@libranet.com) [011012 08:55]:
> * On Fri Oct 12, 2001 11:32:47 -0400, Bruce Miller wrote:
> > I am running Libranet 1.191 updated to woody with KDE from sid. 
> > The version of apt in woody has been 0.5.3; as of yesterday, it 
> > upgraded to 0.5.4.
> > 
> > This version of apt has a feature to download a file from a different 
> > release without changing /etc/apt/sources.list. N.B. The feature is 
> > new as of woody; it does not yet exist in the potato version of apt. 
> > The syntax is: ``apt-get install foobar/release" where release is one 
> > of stable|testing|unstable.
> 
> I think that you still need to have the woody and sid lines in your
> sources.list along with the potato lines.  I think there is also a file
> somewhere that you can use to specify the default dist (e.g. get
> packages from stable unless otherwise stated, etc.)

That's /etc/apt/preferences. help is available in apt_preferences(5)

good times,

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