On Lu, 03 sep 12, 18:57:26, lee wrote: > Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> writes: > > > This is your responsibility as the administrator of your system. > > There are various methods to do it, it all depends on preferences. > > Interesting, which methods are there? Since you only install select packages from unstable you can (ab)use the apt preferences file. Don't set any priority for testing (or stable if you have it in sources.list, don't remember if you do), so they will get priority 500. Then write something like this in /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 1 Explanation: don't auto-install packages from unstable Package: my-unstable-package Pin: version 1.2.3 Pin-Priority: 500 Explanation: fixes troubles with setting foo As long as the priority is the same as testing 'apt-get upgrade' will pull the version from unstable (because it's higher). Because the pin is by version and same priority as testing this is basically fire-and-forget, because: - a newer package in unstable will not be installed (pin doesn't match) - a newer package in testing will be installed without interaction (higher version) The above is an untested ideea I just had, so it will probably need some refining (e.g. I have no ideea what 'apt-get upgrade' will do about a package's dependencies), but this should get you started. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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