On 10/19/2007 10:45 AM, Gordon Pedersen wrote:
On 10/19/07, Mumia W.. <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net> wrote:On 10/18/2007 10:47 PM, Gordon Pedersen wrote:[...] ...except, why were testing packages favored over stable?By default, apt-get wants to install later versions of packages, so if it sees both libc6 2.6.1 and libc6 2.3.6, apt-get will prefer the later version, 2.6.1.Thanks. I guess apt doesn't sense that the system is "stable" - I wonder if there is a way to tell it so? Maybe by pinning "*" to stable, somehow?
Yes. Read "man apt_preferences" to find out how to pin packages and distributions.