Re: apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't downgrade to stable
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:57:53AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:08:09PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> > ...
> >>
> >> [ ... ]
> >>
> >> apt-get update && apt-get -t testing dist-upgrade
> > ^^^^^^^^^^
> > Why -t is set here
> > -t set priority of that "testing" to 990 overriding 1001
> > This is what went wrong.
> >
> > # apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
> >
> > This is what you needed :-)
>
> Yes, it indeed is what I needed. It worked great. Thank you!
>
> Is it also true that setting /etc/apt/apt.conf to contain
> `APT::Default-Release "testing";' also sets "testing" to 990?
Yes, that is my understanding. man apt_preferences
100 to 1000
Standard priorities. 990 is the priority set by the
--target-release apt-get(8) option.
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