Re: The implications of installing from the unstable release
On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 10:03:18 +0100
Matthew Hambley <matthew@aether.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.
That would have been my take on it. What do you get from an:
apt-config dump
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Jamin W. Collins
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