Alex Samad wrote:
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:59:19PM +1000, Jaime Tarrant wrote:Alex Samad wrote:On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:08:38AM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:[snip]
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yeah new about that, my meaning was more along the lines of if you are trying to follow testing then the number he picked might be a bit high 550 for experimental ?Regards, Jaime --To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
Ahh yes, agreed.Anyway, to answer OP's question about the difference between apt.conf and the preferences file, basically the target release entry in apt.conf tells apt to track the specified release (i.e Testing in the OP's example), and otherwise operate using apts defaults. The preferences file allows you to override apts default behaviour - at least that's how I understand it.