On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:00:11 -0600 Ryan Walters wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:29:49 +0100, you wrote: > > >On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:24:54 -0600 Ryan Walters wrote: > >> Hi, I've been trying to figure this out for a few days now, and can't > >> seem to get it to work. I want to pin not based on [stable, testing, > >> unstable], but based on distribution release, in my case, [woody, > >> potato]. > >> ... > >> This however didn't change anything, it still wanted to take all the > >> woody versions of packages, the same as before the preferences file > >> existed. > > > >Try pinning woody below 100. > > I had tried that too, but since the apt/preferences file doesn't seem > to have any effect, changing the pinning number doesn't do anything > ...
Just remembered that potato's apt may not yet be aware of apt pinning. Is that the version you have? No more ideas, I'm afraid. Anyway, as I said in another post, I *strongly* advise you *not* to use apt pinning on a stable distribution. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
