pinning feature of apt-get

[Matthias Berse <matthias.berse@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

Hi :)

I would like to use the pinning feature of apt to install testing
packages only. So far I wrote in /etc/apt/preferences

Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 998

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 50

and tought unstable packages would never be automatically installed.
However if I do a e.g. apt-get install kernel-patch-xfs 
the package gets pulled from unstable without asking for my
permission. I would like to keep unstable in sources.list and do
eventually a apt-get install foo/unstable. Is there a mechanism to get
this working? Where can I read more about apt's pinning feature beside
man apt_preferences?

Thanks, 

Matthias
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