Re: Pinning question

[Carlos Sousa <csousa@tvtel.pt>]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:24:54 -0600 Ryan Walters wrote:
> Hi, I've been trying to figure this out for a few days now, and can't
> seem to get it to work.   I want to pin not based on [stable, testing,
> unstable], but based on distribution release, in my case, [woody,
> potato].
> ...
> /etc/apt/preferences:
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release potato
> Pin-Priority: 800
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release woody
> Pin-Priority: 200
> 
> This however didn't change anything, it still wanted to take all the
> woody versions of packages, the same as before the preferences file
> existed.

Try pinning woody below 100.

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