Re: apt preferences semantics (was Re: Shall I upgrade to Woody?)
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 03:53:12PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
| First thing to check is order of entries in sources.list.
They are correct. See my next post for what solves that problem.
| To be honest, I do not know how exactly the logic behind it. I remember
| reading it somewhere (source?) but can not find it again.
'man 5 apt_preferences' (as you told me previously)
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The packages that have been upgraded to unstable
will continue to follow the versions that are
available in unstable since the stable versions now
fall below the downgrade prevention barrier.
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| > I just installed galeon and mozilla-psm (neat!) using the preferences
| > stuff. When I tried
| >
| > apt-get -s install galeon
|
| $ apt-cache policy galeon
|
| gives package situation w.r.t. stable/testing/unstable.
Cool. First I tried "apt-cache policy" and it showed me waht I have
in the preferences file.
| > Enlightenment is welcomed :-)
|
| I need it too:-)
:-)
-D
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