Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 06:32, Lloyd Zusman wrote: >> >> [ ... ] >> >> Do I have it right? >> >> [ ... ] > > This should work but I don't pin individual packages on mine just the > distributions. Once a package is installed from unstable apt-get > upgrade or dist-upgrade will upgrade those from unstable and testing > will follow testing. My preferences file contains > > Package: * > Pin: release a=testing > Pin-Priority: 600 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=unstable > Pin-Priority: 550 > > I always use the -s option for apt-get dist-upgrade to show me what will > happen before I actually perform the upgrade. I use gnome from unstable > and for the past week dist-upgrade wants to remove gnome and a few > others so I used apt-get upgrade.
OK. So I guess a better way to do what I want is to remove the pinned packages like you said, and then simply use "-t unstable" when installing a package that I'd like to get from that distribution. And from that time forward (unless I do a downgrade or fool around with my apt configuration), when I do an upgrade or an install, I'll always get those packages from "unstable" and the others from "testing". Is that correct? -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
