Bug#685215: Apt pinning is broken
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Malthe Borch <mborch@gmail.com> wrote:
> How difficult would it be to implement a pinning policy that only allowed
> packages released up until some timestamp:
>
> -- /etc/apt/preferences --
>
> Explanation: I want a system current as of some date.
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=stable <= 2014-03-18T12:00:00Z
>
> This would be very useful in situations where you test out a staging system
> and want to upgrade a production system. In this case, you'd like to ensure
> that you only get the upgrades you have tested out in the staging
> environment.
Impossible. We do not know when the packages were released.
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Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
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