Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 04:21:33PM -0800, Julian Blake Kongslie wrote: > >> Is there any progress on this bug? I'd like to be able to pin specific >> packages or patterns like *xorg* to experimental, but anything other >> than Package: * seems to be completely ignored. > > Without having looked at the bug, the default behaviour for apt is to > install packages from experimental if the currently installed version is > higher than the highest available version from non-experimental (that is, > the default priority for experimental is set that way). > > So if you just add experimental to the sources, you can manually install > the packages you want from experimental once and get upgrades automatically > until unstable gets updated, after which it will fall back to tracking > unstable, which is most often the desired behaviour (if you installed the > experimental version in order to get a specific fix or feature, there is no > reason to stay on the experimental "branch" after the changes went into > unstable). Simon, this is completely wrong. experimental packages have pin '1' for default, which less than '100' that installed version have, so no any version s from experimental will be installed automatically by apt (unless pinned properly). -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com Ukrainian C++ Developer, Debian Maintainer, APT contributor
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