Steve Juranich wrote:
On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 23:14:34 -0500 Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:So you already have the sid version installed. apt-get doesn't downgrade packages unless the priority of the older version is greater than 1000. See man apt_preferences for more details on what different priority levels mean (under Candidate Version Policy).Okay. I didn't explain myself here. wine was actually updated today to the current version. Unfortunately, I wrote this message after I did an apt-get upgrade. I've been tracking unstable for several months, but I'd like to dial back to testing. I thought that by just setting the apt.conf file to what I have it, that apt would ignore any packages from unstable unless I specifically requested it and the only way I'd get an upgraded package is if the version in testing changes. Maybe I should wait until tomorrow before I do an apt-get upgrade in order to better illustrate my situation.
Put :
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 40
in /etc/apt/preferences to fix the problem. If you install a package from unstable and then the package in the unstable archive is upgraded. Then the version you have installed is no longer available and reverts to a pin of 100, but the package just uploaded to unstable has a pin of 500 which is greater than 100 and the version number is higher so apt wants to upgrade it. This config change gives the newly uploaded unstable package a pin of 40 which is lower than any installed packages.
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