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Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?



On Sat,23.May.09, 19:59:31, Osamu Aoki wrote:
 
> > > 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...

Yes, it seems Daniel Burrows fixed it for aptitude. I intend to upgrade 
my brother's main machine to squeeze, but I will need to enable 
unstable, at least for the kernel, and I want to have a configuration 
that won't bring any surprises when squeeze is released.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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