On 10/18/2007 10:47 PM, Gordon Pedersen wrote:
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...except, why were testing packages favored over stable?

That is interesting but not crucial to answer.
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By default, apt-get wants to install later versions of packages, so if it sees both libc6 2.6.1 and libc6 2.3.6, apt-get will prefer the later version, 2.6.1.

That's why managing the sources.list is so important. Sources.list controls what apt-get sees.




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