Re: Installing a package from an older distribution

[jennyw <jennyw@dangerousideas.com>]

On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 11:09:29AM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
> Look at man apt_preferences. You should be able to pin mutt to version
> in woody. If you pin the package rather than putting it on hold, you
> should be able to automatically upgrade to new woody package should
> one due to a security fix become available at a later time.

I checked out apt_preferences and it's kind of confusing, but I made my 
best guess:

/etc/apt/preferences

Package: mutt
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 1001

This makes it so that mutt is pulled from stable even though everything 
else is from testing. But will it get security updates?  I'm not quite sure 
about that bit.

Thanks!

Jen