On Vi, 25 mai 12, 15:36:40, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 18:28 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > In conclusion i found out that i should stick to stable and should not > > play with the source list until unless it is necessary. even if i add > > a repo then i must comment it after installing the "whatever package" > > Yesno. I'll say yes, somebody else might recommend > http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html That article, while still useful, - mentions non-US which has been discontinued long time ago (sarge?) - uses sources + pinning by release not code-name[1] [1] this may be due to a bug in apt where pinning by codename was not possible, fixed in the meantime (lenny?). I seem to remember the Debian Reference has a good guide to pinning and it is up-to-date (thanks to Osamu Aoki). Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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