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Re: aptitude --target target sarge xxx doesn't limit to sarge



On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:43:54 -0500
"Daniel B." <REMOVEdanielTHIS@fgm.com> wrote:

> 
> When I run "aptitude --target sarge install ...", aptitude doesn't
> listen to the instruction to install a version from Sarge; it installs
> a version from Testing.  (I have both Sarge and Testing mirrors in
> my APT sources list file.)
> 
> What needs to be done to get "--target ..." (or APT::Default-Release)
> to work?
> 
> 
> This is with Sarge's version of aptitude and friends.
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel

Hhhm... from man aptitude it seems the long option is --target-release (or -t). And you didn't specify what is your default release, if you did set one in /etc/apt/apt.conf 
If you didn't set it maybe you should...

Andrei
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