Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 09:50:27AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon,18.May.09, 16:28:55, Barclay, Daniel wrote:
> > Michael M. Moore wrote:
> > ...
> > > mcubed@drifter:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
> > > APT::Default-Release "stable";
> > > APT::Cache-Limit 33554432;
> >
> > At some time in the past, APT::Default-Release worked only with the status-based
> > release names (stable, testing, etc.) but didn't work (and didn't report any
> > error message) when given release code names (e.g., lenny, sid, etc.)
> >
> > Has that been fixed yet?
>
> Short answer: No. Long answer: see #97564, #254716, #423234 and #509471.
>
> > If not, how can one avoid having aptitude try to upgrade you to a newly
> > release version (before you more directly choose to)?
>
> I'd be interested in a solution as well.
Are you talking aptitude bug: 514930
It has interesting comment
> This bug of aptitude ignoring priority of packages appears to be the
> same as bug #473296 .
It is fixed in experimental only...
Osamu
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