Control: tag -1 wontfix On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 03:29:47PM -0700, Dan Urist wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.9.7.9+deb7u6 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > With "apt-get install -t", a package and all its dependencies are > installed from the given release. There seems to be no way to achieve > the same behavior with apt preferences. While it's possible to specify > a glob or regexp for package names in apt preferences, any dependent > packages that don't match won't be installed from the given > release. The use case for this functionality is in systems managed by > configuration management software (e.g. puppet), where it's much more > straightforward to specify behavior in a configuration file than via > flags to a specific command.
The -t option set's default release, which is equivalent to Package: * Pin: release a=<VALUE PASSED TO -t> Pin-Priority: 990 it does not do anything special for dependencies. Marking as wontfix. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. Be friendly, do not top-post, and follow RFC 1855 "Netiquette". - If you don't I might ignore you.
