Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 10:57, Lloyd Zusman wrote: >> >> [ ... ] >> > > That is what I do, but as I said earlier a dist-upgrade could remove > some packages you want to keep so the -s option will tell you what it > will do before you regret doing it. A dist-upgrade is not always a wise > thing to do when you dabble in unstable. > > I think pinning a package is more for keeping a package from being > upgraded. If you are running testing you could keep a package at > stable, or you could pin it to a specific version in testing.
Even though I haven't explicitly stated this in any messages, I always do a run with '-s' as a precaution before a "real" run, and I agree with you about its value. But even so, it's also still valuable to me to not have to remember to put the '-t' option on the 'apt-get' command line, and now I understand how to set things up so I don't have to do that, except for when I'm first installing a package from "unstable". Thanks to you and others for all your help. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
