Re: downgrading from unstable to testing

[Josh McKinney <forming@charter.net>]

On approximately Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 07:49:08AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote:
> 
> If I want to live my debian life in the middle with 'testing', should I
> create a preferences file?  If I don't, and just put entries for testing
> at the top of my sources list, does that mean the apt-get function will
> never descend down beyond the first entries of sources.list?
> 
> Thanks
> Kevin
> 

If you just want to use testing you don't need a preferences file.  apt will
always install the latest version available.

Josh
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