How can I keep apt-get from trying specific versions of some packages when doing a dist-upgrade?
I have unstable as default in apt.conf, so that gets priority 990. Then I have assigned priority 995 to experimental in preferences so that apt-get will upgrade to the latest and greatest (-pain-in-the-behind, sometimes :o) versions available there. However, some packages from experimental don't work correctly (as can be expected of course). I can downgrade to the unstable version manually, that is not the problem, but how do I keep apt-get from upgrading it again to that same version at the next run? For example, the 2.3.2.ds1-1 version of libc6 from experimental makes lots of programs crash, so I don't want that particular version installed. However, I do want to keep tracking unstable and experimental when a newer version is uploaded. So I can't just pin libc6 to version 2.3.2-8 or release a=unstable. I tried to do this by adding lines such as these to preferences: |Package: packagename |Pin: version bad-version-number |Pin-Priority: -10 because the apt_preferences man page says this will prevent that version from being installed. This does not work. apt-get keeps trying to install the bad version. Is there another way I'm overlooking? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
