Re: Apt-pinning confusion
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:10:08 -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:15:10PM +0000, Ramon Hofer wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I'm trying to put the MythTV PVR XBMC version on my Shuttle box. I need
>> a newer alsa version than the one from Squeeze because the stable
>> version doesn't see the soundcard. So I wanted to install alsa from
>> testing.
>> And because I use a SSD I thought it would be a good idea to use the
>> squeeze-backports kernel.
>>
> It might make your life a little bit easier to forget about pinning and
> just put this in you /etc/apt/apt.conf file:
>
> APT::Default-Release "stable";
>
> That will prevent your system from upgrading to Wheezy on you, but it'll
> allow you to install files from wheezy (provided wheezy is in your
> sources.list).
This makes it much easier.
Thanks alot for the tipp :-)
Best regards
Ramon
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