On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:11:53AM +0000, John Halton wrote:
>On 03/02/06, Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > could I use stable and unstable sources list at the same time as this in
>> > /etc/apt/sources.list?
>> >
>> > deb ftp://ftp.linuxforum.net/debian/ stable main
>> > deb ftp://ftp.linuxforum.net/debian/ unstable main
>>
>> Yes. I think you should include testing as well. Then you need to
>> put *one* of the following lines in /etc/apt/apt.conf
>>
>> APT::Default-Release "stable";
>> APT::Default-Release "testing";
>> APT::Default-Release "unstable";
>>
>
>My understanding was that if you have more than two repositories then
>it is better to use pinning, using /etc/apt/preferences, so you can set
>different priorities for each of the non-default releases.
AFAIK setting APT::Default-Release is an easier way than pinning.
Personally I avoid pinning as far as possible...
>The exact configuration then depends on which of the three repositories
>you want to prioritise - i.e. do you want to track stable but having
>testing/unstable packages available, or do you want to track testing or
>unstable.
The APT::Default-Release does that too. E.g. I have testing, unstable
and experimental in my APT source.list. With "APT::Default-Release
"unstable";" I get the following
% apt-cache policy alsa-utils
alsa-utils:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.0.10-1
Version table:
1.0.10+1.0.11rc2-1 0
1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org experimental/main Packages
1.0.10-1 0
500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/main Packages
990 http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Packages
So "apt-get install alsa-utils" will install the package from unstable,
while experimental and testing is available. I need pinning to keep a
package in testing from being upgraded to unstable though.
/M
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