Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

[Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>]

Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> writes:

> 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.

So in that case, what would be the solution?  I guess we would have to
know what testing packages have fixes in unstable, and then use the "-t
unstable" option to apt-get ... correct?


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 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com