On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 04:55:26PM -0800, Stefan Baums said > Dear list, > > I would like to configure APT to do the following: > > - install requested and update installed packages from > repository X (unstable or third-party) for as long as those > packages are not available in repository Y (testing or > stable) > > - automatically switch to updating those packages from > repository Y instead of X as soon as they become available in > Y, even if that requires a downgrade > > Currently, my /etc/apt/preferences file contains > > Package: * > Pin: release a=testing > Pin-Priority: 900 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=stable > Pin-Priority: 800 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=unstable > Pin-Priority: 700 > > This does not do what I want because it will keep installing > packages from unstable once a version from unstable is on my > system, even after a testing version of that package becomes > available. Read the apt_preferences(5) man page, set the pin for unstable to 100 < P <=500. However, what on earth are you doing? Mixing up all three versions of Debian is NOT supported, and will eventually break in odd ways. > I do not have an /etc/apt/apt.conf file. If you want to set something there, just create it. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: infowar Hacker Geraldton Ceridian AFSPC SP4 Yukon president
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