Steve Juranich wrote: > I'm starting to come to the conclusion that the new way that AJ is running the > sarge release cycle is leaving far more truly "unstable" packages in the > "unstable" tree, so that it probably makes more sense for me to be pulling > packages from testing rather than unstable. > > So is the best way to move from sid to sarge just to fiddle with the > sources.list and just wait for sarge to catch up with what I've got on my > system now? I'd really hate this to be another "apt-get dist-downgrade" > thread. I knew what I was getting into when I upgraded to "unstable", but now > I want out (after about 2 years). > > If there is a better (faster) way to move my system into a 'sarge' system, I'd > be happy to hear it.
I'm not an expert for sure but I just came across this the other day while reading up about apt pinning. I think what you need to do is pin sarge with a priority greater than 1000. Something along the following lines in your /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 1001 you might also need to add the following line to /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Default-Release "testing"; correct me if I'm way off track here but I'm guessing the next time you do an upgrade you should be bumped back to sarge.. leo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
