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Re: pinning not working



Hi,

It is tricky but apt-pin only works with
testing/stable/unstable/experimental/... suite names.

You are using codename.

See http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch03.en.html#tweakingcandidateversion

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:05:09AM -0400, Luis Finotti wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to install KDE 4.2 on lenny.  (I made backups and am aware
> that things might go bad.  I wanted to try it anyway.)  So, I followed
> theshttp://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html#contente
> instructions:
...
> t60[~]$ cat /etc/apt/preferences
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=lenny
> Pin-Priority: 900
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=sid
> Pin-Priority: 300
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=experimental
> Pin-Priority: 101


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