Re: apt pinning and getting linux-image-686 from unstable

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <[🔎] h06nj1$fon$1@ger.gmane.org>, emikaadeo wrote:
>> H.S. wrote:
>>> Can somebody tell me if the following is possible using apt pinning? I
>>> want to install the newer version of kernel (linux-image-2.6-686, ver
>>> now is, I think, 2.6.29-3) from Untable to my Testing machine.
>>>
>>> I am thinking of using apt pinning. Something like:
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>> ~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences
>>> Package: *
>>> Pin: release a=testing
>>> Pin-Priority: 700
>>>
>>> Package: <package to be pulled from unstable>
>>> Pin: release a=unstable
>>> Pin-Priority: 1000
>>>
>>> Package: *
>>> Pin: release a=unstable
>>> Pin-Priority: -1
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Would it be easier to just pin unstable repo like this? :
>>
>> Package: *
>> Pin: release a=testing
>> Pin-Priority: 700
>>
>> Package: *
>> Pin: release a=unstable
>> Pin-Priority: 500
>>
>> and then install newer kernel by:
>> aptitude -t unstable install linux-image-2.6.29-2-686
> 
> If you are just following Squeeze/Sid then it's even simpler.  After adding 
> unstable to sources.list, set APT::Default-Release to "testing" in apt.conf.  
> Now testing will have a priority of 900, unstable will have a priority of 
> 500, and installed packages will (still) have a priority of 100.

So I don't need "Pin-Priority: -1" stanza at all? On a related note,
when is it required?

Thanks.



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