On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Brendan Miller <catph...@catphive.net> wrote: > > I'm on debian stable (squeeze), but would like to be able to install a > few packages from testing (wheezy). I tried to set up apt pinning, but > it doesn't seem to work quite right. When I apt-get install something > now, it all comes from wheezy even if there are squeeze versions of > the package. It's almost like the preferences file isn't getting read. > > Is there anything wrong with the configuration below? Is there any way > to get apt to spit out it's internal model of the priorities so I can > verify that everything is actually getting loaded? > > /etc/apt/preferences: > > Package: * > Pin: release a=squeeze > Pin-Priority: 700 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=wheezy > Pin-Priority: 650
"a=stable" and "a=testing", or (AFAIK, new in squeeze) "n=squeeze" and "n=wheezy". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=SywmBsFWojZM_Tx5UPu5_rB=kajosgicl346-88sph...@mail.gmail.com
