On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 02:51, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > --Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch> wrote > (on Wednesday, 11 September 2002, 03:53 PM +0200): [...] > > As downgrades are often not properly supported, you'll probably want to > > do the same (or remove unstable sources alltogether), unless some > > packages are really broken. As long as it works, I would not actively > > downgrade any packages. > Unfortunately, some of the packages no longer work -- and as I need to > _use_ the machine, I need a certain degree of stability. I also need to > have a machine a little more on "the bleeding edge" than woody. Ok, then I would definitely recommend mixing stable and unstable. > > I have to set up my preferences file to prefer testing/updates with > > priority 750, and normally use just testing with 700. (this assumes > > you've read man apt_preferences). > I've read apt_preferences, and here are the contents of my > /etc/apt/preferences file: > > Package: * > Pin: release v=3.*,a=testing,c=*,o=*,l=Debian > Pin-Priority: 1001 1001 should be ok (I've never tried it, though, as the just wait approach has worked for me so far). > I have also changed my sources.list to point only at testing for the > time being. When I do an apt-show-versions -u, however, no packages are > returned (well, on the first try, 7 were, but they were actual upgrades > to what I had... hmmm..). > > I suspect that either I have the Pin wrong, or that I need to bump the > Pin-Priority even higher... Anybody have any ideas? Hmm. Are packages actually assigned prio 1001? What does apt-policy <somepkg> say? My preferences file is: === Package: * Pin: release l=Debian-Security Pin-Priority: 750 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 600 === Where stable is in mostly to catch the stupid sort of thing that happened to gnome-terminal. It's important that the Debian-Security thing is first, because a=testing catches also testing-security (haven't looked if packages ever come in here) and a=stable catches also stable-security. My sources.list ist (careful, linebreaks!) === deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main non-free contrib deb http://debian.ethz.ch/mirror/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb http://debian.ethz.ch/mirror/debian-non-US/ testing/non-US main non-free contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main non-free contrib deb http://debian.ethz.ch/mirror/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb http://debian.ethz.ch/mirror/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main non-free contrib deb http://debian.ethz.ch/mirror/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb http://debian.ethz.ch/mirror/debian-non-US/ unstable/non-US main non-free contrib === (well, almost. I use apt-cacher in between). cheers -- vbi -- secure email with gpg http://fortytwo.ch/gpg NOTICE: subkey signature! request key 92082481 from keyserver.kjsl.com
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