Re: Bug#114240: apt: --target-release does not work with "upgrade" and "dist-upgrade"

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>]

On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Luiz-Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:

> In the very end of this email I'm attaching the output of apt-cache
> policy (I don't fully understand it, so please forgive me if the
> answer is evident there). I'm also attaching my sources.list, and,

You have to use it right, for instance here is how your strace package
should look:

wakko{root}/#apt-cache policy strace
strace:
  Installed: 4.2-4
  Candidate: 4.4-1
  Version Table:
     4.4-1 0
        500 http://gluck.debian.org sid/main Packages
 *** 4.2-4 0
        500 http://gluck.debian.org woody/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

wakko{root}/#apt-cache -o APT::Default-Release=testing policy strace
strace:
  Installed: 4.2-4
  Candidate: 4.2-4
  Version Table:
     4.4-1 0
        500 http://gluck.debian.org sid/main Packages
 *** 4.2-4 0
        990 http://gluck.debian.org woody/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


If it looks like, say:

wakko{root}/#apt-cache -o APT::Default-Release=testing policy strace
strace:
  Installed: 4.3-3
  Candidate: 4.4-1
  Version Table:
     4.4-1 0
        500 http://gluck.debian.org sid/main Packages
 *** 4.3-3 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4.2-4 0
        990 http://gluck.debian.org woody/main Packages

Then upgrading to unstable is how it is documented to operate.

Jason