On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 08:52:53PM +0200, Bostjan Muller wrote: > * On 17-08-01 at 19:26 Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > +----Here quoted text begins----+ > > > > In fact I'm told this works fine if you "pin" testing as preferred; > > packages from sid will then be installed if you ask for them > > specifically (e.g. via apt-get install). > > > > However, I don't claim to understand pinning as I've never used it. > > Joey Hess posted how to do it here a while back ... > > > [...] > +----and here the quote ends----+ > Does anyone know where to get this howto?? > > I'd really like to have this since I need it to make my sid system work on my > laptop, especially now when X 4.1.0 does not work on it.
I'd look for it myself but I'm in the middle of some regression testing. Have you tried searching the list archives? -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton [ ok, I lied ... I looked through my personal archive :) ] Am 14. Jun, 2001 schwäzte Mike Williams so: > This is a really cool idea, but I can't get it working for me. Are you running apt 0.5.3? That's out of testing. 0.3.19 in stable doesn't have support for /etc/apt/preferences. > I want to run "testing" for most things, but grab selected packages (mainly > KDE) from "unstable". My setup looks like this: > > ,--- /etc/apt/preferences --- > | Package: * > | Pin: release a=testing > | Pin-Priority: 900 > | > | Package: * > | Pin: release a=unstable > | Pin-Priority: 50 That should do it. You don't have anything commented out that you didn't show here, do you? That hoses things :(. > ,--- /etc/apt/sources.list --- > | deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian testing main contrib non-free > | deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian testing/non-US main contrib > non-free > | > | deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian unstable main contrib non-free > | deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian unstable/non-US main contrib > non-free > > But, when I "apt-get upgrade", it's trying to ungrade me to "unstable" > versions of everything. What am I doing wrong?? Even if you currently had unstable installed, by pinning unstable below 100 you shouldn't be updating to it. ciao, der.hans -- # [EMAIL PROTECTED] home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.DevelopOnline.com # I chose to use the kernel sources as my documentation. ;-) # -- Kevin Buettner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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