Hi, as I showed in my initial post, I don't have that file:
# ls -l /etc/apt/apt.conf ls: cannot access /etc/apt/apt.conf: No such file or directory # That's what made me wondering what is the default release if "APT::Default-Release" is not configured and based on what this default release is determined. thanks, Martin On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 12:03 AM, maderios <mader...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/07/2016 07:26 PM, Martin T wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I read the apt_preferences man page and it says that "To configure the >> default release in the configuration file, use: APT::Default-Release >> "stable";". While I have multiple distributions in sources.list >> file(stable, testing, unstable, jessie-backports), then I don't have >> the "Default-Release" configured: >> >> # grep -R Default-Release /etc/apt/ >> # >> >> What is the default "Default-Release"? How is this determined? >> > Hi > Look at your /etc/apt/apt.conf > > My apt.conf for testing: > > APT::Install-Recommends "false"; > APT::Install-Suggests "false"; > APT::Default-Release "testing"; > > -- > Maderios >