Re: prevent apt from downgrading packages

To: "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com>
Cc: DebianUser <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: prevent apt from downgrading packages
From: Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 11:07:18 +0100
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Il giorno ven 1 mar 2019 alle ore 10:46 Alexander V. Makartsev <avbetev@gmail.com> ha scritto:

On 01.03.2019 13:27, Felix Rubio wrote:

I have mix stable+testing (~1200 packages from stable, ~20 packages from testing). I have the following contents in /etc/apt/preferences.d/pinning:

This is something you should not do in first place. [1]

I have a "testing" installation with "stable" as additional source, meaning that in my case the numbers would probably be reversed.

Is that still a no-no ?

Regards,

Andrea.

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