Re: force stable package if avail

[a_d@gmx.at (Albert Dengg)]

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On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:23:47AM -0400, Jean-Sebastien Pilon wrote:
> Hello all, 
> 
> Sometimes I need to install testing and/or unstable packages. The thing
> is that I would like to keep all to stable if possible... 
> 
> Example: 
> 
> I need sun-java5-jdk with is only in unstable
> 
> I want all dependencies to be installed from stable if possible
> 
> Is there a way I can tell apt to use stable and only testing and
> unstable when package not in stable ???
> 
> 
> 
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Hi

well use pinning (as for example used and described with backports.org
that way you can force apt to only use specific packages from
unstable/testing/backports/etc...

for more information about pinning see also
man apt_preferences

yours
Albert

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Albert Dengg <a_d@gmx.at>
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