Re: /etc/apt/preferences Confusion
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 09:38:50PM -0500, dman wrote:
> | As I understand it, /etc/apt/preferences can help me with this. I can add
...
> Stuff that is currently installed gets a priority of 100. This setup
> makes unstable not preferred at all, and testing preferred over
> installed packages. 1000 is another threshold value, but I didn't
> really understand the manpage when I read it (someone explained the
> 100 to me).
By setting sources's pin to the larger number than 1000, that source
overide current one even if it version are older.
For example setting pin for "stable" greater than 1000, one can
use "apt-get dist-upgrade" to downgrade back to the stable.
http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ch-package.html#s-apt-install
(I need to fix some config to get myself back to ML. D--m ATT@HOME)
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