On Tue, 13 Mar 2012, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > No, that's not correct. If a package is already installed but a newever > version is available, then this will be upgraded if the priority is 1. > It just won't be selected for installation automatically. > > This is how experimental works: packages in experimental have priority > 1, so won't be installed automatically; but the will be upgraded if > needs be.
I'm sorry but Carsten is right. I routinely add the snippet below precisely because packages installed from experimental are not upgraded from experimental without it. Package: * Pin: release experimental Pin-Priority: 150 And it's also the reason why APT now supports a "ButAutomaticUpgrades: yes" field to complement the "NotAutomatic: yes" field. The result is to have a priority of 100 instead of 1 (backports.debian.org uses it). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Pre-order a copy of the Debian Administrator's Handbook and help liberate it: http://debian-handbook.info/liberation/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
