Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,15.Apr.09, 14:19:11, JoeHill wrote: > > > So I'm guessing it has something to do with pin-priority? I notice that the > > output from apt-cache policy includes an '800' for unstable and a '900' for > > testing. > > Because testing has higher priority (900) than unstable (800) apt will > not install packages from unstable if they are available in testing > (even if it's an older version). You could force it with > > aptitude install -t unstable my_badly_needed_package
I am ashamed. I did read that before in the apt-pinning howto, and forgot all about it. Many thanks, my_badly_needed_package is installed and all is so far well :-) -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
