Re: can't install anything from testing

["Mumia W.." <paduille.4058.mumia.w@earthlink.net>]

On 10/04/2006 04:53 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 23:12:24 +0200, Andreas Berglund wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 07:39:34PM +0200, Andreas Berglund wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi!
> > > > > > I recently reinstalled debian stable on my box, but I would like to run 
> > > > > > some packages from testing. But after the reinstall I can't install 
> > > > > > anything from the testing repository, I get messages of dependencies 
> > > > > > that can't be met for everything. I have searched google and the man 
> > > > > > pages for apt-* and dpkg for a clue but I havent found anything. Does 
> > > > > > anyone now what's going on on or where I should look for a solution?
>
> [...]
>
> > This is my /etc/apt/preferences
> >
> > Package: *
> > Pin: release a=stable
> > Pin-Priority: 900
> >
> > Package: *
> > Pin: release a=testing
> > Pin-Priority: -1
>                 ^^
>
> $ man apt_preferences 2>/dev/null | grep -A 1 'P < 0'
>        P < 0
>           prevents the version from being installed

Hmm, interesting. I've often wanted to be able to use aptitude to see 
what is available to users of testing and unstable--but without having 
any possibility of converting my system into testing or unstable.

This seems to suggest that I can use that syntax to allow me to put 
testing in my sources.list without any risk of being able to install 
anything from testing.

Is that correct?


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