Re: Recommend pin practices for using volatile?
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 02:23:38PM +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
> I've been using sarge for some time, and i've never quite got my
> apt-pinning right. It's all fairly straightforward - i want to track
> stable, use volatile for the important things, and occasionally pull
> packages from unstable.
If you "occasionally pull packages from unstable", you will end up
with unstable libraries pretty fast, combining the disadvantages of
stable and unstable without gaining the advantages. I'd récommend
against doing so.
> Yet 'apt-get dist-upgrade' tells me there is nothing to upgrade. Any ideas?
apt-cache policy and apt-cache policy <package> can be of great help.
Greetings
Marc
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