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

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

Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 04:31:32PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> 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.
> 
> Please read:
>  http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_tweaking_candidate_version
> 
>> I am thinking of using apt pinning. I know that I need to set the
>> default release to "testing" in apt.conf, add unstable sources to
>> sources.list and then create /etc/apt/preferences file specifying the
>> package I want from unstable and its priority. 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
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Quite wong ... 
> 
> 

I suppose you meant 'wrong'. What is the correction? How about the
following?
----------------------------------------------------------------
~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 200
----------------------------------------------------------------

and to use "-t" with the package I want.

Would this work in tracking the newer version of the kernel package from
unstable once I install it using -t?

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