Re: Anyone Care to Critique my Apt Preferences? (was Re: apt-cacher as package rollback buffer)

[Freeman <evenso@worldwidehtml.com>]

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 06:41:35PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:15:24PM -0800, Freeman wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 05:10:26PM -0800, evenso wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 02:33:05PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > > > On Monday 15 February 2010 13:30:19 Freeman wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > However, could a rollback represent an incursion on the priority system?
> ...
> > The above preferences are for testing/unstable/experimental with a
> > contingency for and emergency rollback a package to an obsolete package
> > archived in my apt-cacher files. (My recent experience with the buggy
> > xserver-xorg/mesa upgrade prompted this plan.)
> 
> In short, I do not like people asking this kind of question to casually
> install mixed archive for their sake.  Especially things like experimental.
> 
> > I'd rather find out that the above Preferences are destructive here than
> > during an install!
> 

Thanks everyone, BTW. That thread is in my notes archive.

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Kind Regards,
Freeman