Re: Verification of apt-get config for mixed system.

[Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>]

Dale Hair <dale@meridian-electric.com> writes:

> On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 06:32, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
>> 
>> [ ... ]
>> 
>> Do I have it right?
>> 
>> [ ... ]
>
> This should work but I don't pin individual packages on mine just the
> distributions.  Once a package is installed from unstable apt-get
> upgrade or dist-upgrade will upgrade those from unstable and testing
> will follow testing.  My preferences file contains 
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 600
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=unstable
> Pin-Priority: 550
>
> I always use the -s option for apt-get dist-upgrade to show me what will
> happen before I actually perform the upgrade.  I use gnome from unstable
> and for the past week dist-upgrade wants to remove gnome and a few
> others so I used apt-get upgrade.

OK.  So I guess a better way to do what I want is to remove the pinned
packages like you said, and then simply use "-t unstable" when
installing a package that I'd like to get from that distribution.  And
from that time forward (unless I do a downgrade or fool around with my
apt configuration), when I do an upgrade or an install, I'll always get
those packages from "unstable" and the others from "testing".

Is that correct?


-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com