What do I *not* understand about apt defaults and preferences? I was at woody/stable for a year. Recently, I've taken the plunge and upgraded to testing, and I think that I am configured to stay at testing: # cat /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Cache-Limit 12582912; APT::Default-Release "testing"; # cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 1000 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 1000 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 0 However, I just did this: # sudo dselect update And, I get this result: # sudo apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back aptitude kdeartwork synaptic w3m 13 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. Need to get 8642kB of archives. After unpacking 477kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main sysv-rc 2.85-4 [23.8kB] Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main sysvinit 2.85-4 [80.8kB] Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main initscripts 2.85-4 [13.1kB] Get:4 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main debconf 1.2.42 [138kB] Get:5 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main ispell 3.1.20.0-2 [156kB] Get:6 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main iamerican 3.1.20.0-2 [411kB] Get:7 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main whiptail 0.51.4-10 [26.8kB] Get:8 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main debconf-utils 1.2.42 [98.3kB] Get:9 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main gs 7.07-1 [3013kB] Get:10 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main kdeartwork-misc 4:3.1.2-2 [3711kB] Get:11 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main kdeartwork-style 4:3.1.2-2 [27.0kB] Get:12 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main kdeartwork-theme-window 4:3.1.2-2 [117kB] Get:13 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main kscreensaver 4:3.1.2-2 [827kB] Fetched 8642kB in 39s (216kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... I do *NOT* want to upgrade to un-stable! What am I doing wrong? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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