Re: apt and preferences

[Klaus Imgrund <claus.imgrund@terra.com.br>]

>   libxmltok1-dev: Depends: libxmltok1 (= 1.1-8) but 1.1-9 is to be
> installed
> E: Sorry, broken packages
> 
> 
> i thought apt was supposed to make these sorts of things easier!?  its
> like as soon as you introduce the testing tree into your package
> cache, you're in trouble and individual package installations.
> 
> is there some addition to apt.conf that i can add that tells apt to
> ONLY consider the stable branch for ALL package things (upgrade and
> install) unless otherwise indicated by a custom -t option?

Sorry,

I didn't really follow this thing but it looks like you are running a
mixed environment in somewhere in between testing and unstable. I do
that,too and it gives me trouble at times - had to upgrade all the
packages to unstable one time because my mix wouldn't work anymore. You
can mix distro's with no problem at all when you got apps that are
pretty much stand alone things without important dependencies. Other
than that things get touchy pretty quick.

Prost,

Klaus