H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > Yesterday I made the jump and put in unstable sources in sources.list in > on testing machine solely to get nvidia working again in Testing (what > is wrong with testing regarding nvidia anyway?). > > I have this for my policy: > $> cat /etc/apt/apt.conf > APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true"; > Acquire::::Proxy "false"; > APT::Default-Release "testing"; > > > Is this good enough for an "aptitude update" and "aptitude safe-upgrade" > such that only those package will be pulled from Unstable which are > necessary for nvidia related packages? Or should I now just remove the > unstable sources' repos from my sources.list file? > > Recommendations and advice on what is the sensible way to proceed in > this are welcome. > > thanks, > ->HS Hi HS, I am also running Lenny with some Sid mixed in (but mostly Lenny). I don't even have a /etc/apt/apt.conf file on my system. I do my "mixing" in the following way. I have a file called /etc/apt/preferences which looks like this: Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=unstable Pin-Priority: 600
Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing Pin-Priority: 650 I also have both Lenny and Sid sources in my sources.list file. If I don't do anything special then I get the Lenny version of a package (unless that particular package was already unstable by an earlier choice). To get the unstable version I do this: #aptitude -t unstable install <name of package> This is called "pinning", I believe. Works for me. Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
