On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 19:05:49 -0500, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: > Are you really sure that setting the priorities of stable, testing and > unstable to 900, 800 and 700, respectively, we would be able to have a > mixed system? IMHO, with this configuration, and entries for stable, > testing and unstable in sources.list, if a dist-upgrade is run then apt > will update every current installed package to the lastest version (if > avaiable) in unstable.
No, it takes the package (newer than the installed version) that has the highest priority. > To be stick on stable we should set priority to some value greater > than 1000, but on the other hand in this case we couldn't upgrade > unstable packages installed using -t. Am I wrong? Priorities above 1000 are there if you want to allow to downgrade. IMHO, they are useful only for pinning particular packages. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> - 100% validated (X)HTML - Acorn Risc PC, Yellow Pig 17, Championnat International des Jeux Mathématiques et Logiques, TETRHEX, etc. Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
