Re: howto use defaults/preferences to keep to testing ???
On Wed, June 18 at 8:32 PM EDT
"Michael D. Schleif" <mds@helices.org> wrote:
> 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";
>
You can refer to the following link for some preferences settings.
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html
If you don't want *any* packages from unstable then comment out that
line from /etc/apt/sources.list
Shawn
> # 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?
>
Shawn Lamson
shawn.lamson@verizon.net
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
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