Re: problem installing tdsodbc

[Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez <m.coba.m@gmail.com>]

Leinier C. Salfran wrote:
> El mar, 25-07-2006 a las 10:21 -0500, kenn escribió:
>> Greetings.
>>
>> I'm having trouble installing tdsodbc from unstable
>> (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/tdsodbc) onto my Debian 3.1
>> stable ....
>>
>> Having edited /etc/apt/sources.list to request unstable, I get the
>> following when I try to install.
>>

This is my /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free

Use yor mirror instead.

My /etc/apt/apt.conf:

APT::Default-Release "unstable";

My /etc/apt/preferences

Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 600

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 500

This way I always get stable packages, but testing or unstable packages
if they don't exist for stable.
When I want a testing package I do:

aptitude install tdsodbc -ttesting

and aptitude gets the package from testing trying to get the dependences
from testing too.

I hope this help.

Miguel Cobá