Re: Apt question
It's easy, and helpful. :)
Create/Add...
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-priority: 900
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-priority: 50
...To your /etc/apt/preferences, and add a sid source at the end of your
/etc/apt/sources.list. If you're using potato, you'd change the 'Pin:
release a=testing' line to 'Pin: release a=stable'.
With that done, to install a package[s] from sid, use apt-get -t
unstable install <whatever>. If I made any big errors, someone correct
me. :)
On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 19:23, Scott Henson wrote:
> A few weeks ago I heard something about pinning in apt. If I remember
> correctly you can put sid in your sources.list and pin its urgency down
> to 50 and there for you could install stuff in sid with out upgradeing
> to sid. Or something to that effect. Ive looked through the archives,
> but I cant find it. I have also looked through the apt man pages, but I
> havent found it yet. If someone knows where I could find out how to use
> this, or just tell me how to do it, I would be very gracious.
>
>
> --
> -Scott Henson
>
> shenson2@wvu.edu
>
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> the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each
> day, or it is rotten... The
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> de corps, the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual
> oversight can the democrat in office be
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> can a people be kept sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty
> be smothered in material
> prosperity... Never look, for an age when the people can be quiet and
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> Phillips
>
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