Bug#225811: Should depend on exact versions

[Ross Burton <ross@burtonini.com>]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 03:53, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:00:33PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > You can add the following to your apt preferences file
> > (/etc/apt/preferences):
> > 
> > Package: *
> > Pin: release a=xfree86
> > Pin-Priority: 1002
> > 
> > Please let me know if this solution satisfies your needs.
> 
> Isn't it 'release a=experimental'? Also, there's this:
> for package in $(apt-cache showsrc xfree86 | grep ^Binary | cut -f2- -d: | tr -d ,); do printf "Package: %s\nPin: release a=experimental\nPin-Priority: 600\n\n" "$package"; done >> /etc/apt/preferences
> 
> The script comes from David B. Harris. Cheers. :)

I'd prefer not to pin all of experimental, so that evil script looks
like a better solution.

The script is better than the script Jeff Waugh mailed me, which scanned
parsed the output of dpkg -l...

I suggest that both of these are documented in the x-window-system-core
(or wherever is more relevant) package, in an FAQ or README.

Ross
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