Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 13:25:50 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
> If I am not mistaken, it is possible to avoid this
> worst case scenario by appropriately setting up apt's
> preferences. Suppose I set the priorities of distributions
> as follows
> stable 900
> testing 800
> unstable 700
> and, starting with a woody system, upgrade a single package
> foo to version vvv from unstable
> apt-get -t unstable install foo
> which pulls in unstable libc6. Later when I do
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> apt will upgrade most packages from stable but will
> upgrade foo from unstable, or from testing if version vvv
> has made it into testing; and likewise libc6.
There would still be security problems for installed packages that
are in testing: the upgrade to unstable (to get the fixed package)
won't be automatical.
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