Re: pinning: Upgrading to unstable via gui, from testing.
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 04:47:40PM -0500, Mike Mestnik wrote:
> I'm using pinning and I can't find ought how to use dselect to select
> packages that should track unstable. I would also like to select
> packages that, if able, should track testing/stable.
>
> Is there another gui that might deal better with pinning?
dselect predates pinning and doesn't do it. (Good - I'd rather it
didn't! Certainly mixing stable and unstable is strictly for the
extremely brave, and defeats the point of running stable unless you're
very careful ...)
Try aptitude, which I think handles it.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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