Re: The implications of installing from the unstable release

[Matthew Hambley <matthew@aether.demon.co.uk>]

In message <[🔎] 20020720150433.3f37247e.jcollins@asgardsrealm.net>
          Jamin W. Collins <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Jul 2002 20:38:36 +0100
> Matthew Hambley <matthew@aether.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > In message <[🔎] 20020719135843.102087f6.jcollins@asgardsrealm.net>
> >           Jamin W. Collins <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Yep, that'll do it.
> > 
> > So I did that and already I've had my glibc changed to the unstable
> > version.  What's going on?
> 
> I'm assuming your referring to the libc6 package, right? Are you using a
> local mirror?

Yes, libc6 is the package name.  No, I don't use a local mirror.  Packages
are pulled straight off a debian (remote) mirror.

> :~$ apt-cache policy libc6
[snip]

So if I do this I get:

libc6:
  Installed: 2.2.5-12
  Candidate: 2.2.5-12
  Version Table:
 *** 2.2.5-12 0
        500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.2.5-10 0
        500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
     2.2.5-6 0
        500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org stable/main Packages
        990 http://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/main Packages

This appears to show what I would expect.  Namely that the testing distro
has highest priority.  This being the case I would have expected  the
2.2.5-6 version of the package to be un effected by the fact that there are
more recent versions in both the unstable and stable/update distros.

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