On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 04:28:28PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 23:48:39 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > Don't pin between stable and anything newer, or you'll end up just > > having some serious cascading dependencies that will result in you > > running testing or unstable in the end anyway. See also: > > apt-pinning considered harmful unless you *really* know what it's > > going to do. > > > > Use http://www.apt-get.org/ to find good backports for woody > > instead. > > I thought pinning seemed dicey when I first read up on it. > > Whenever I think of the word "pinning", I have this persistent visual > of how entymologists store insects.
Blanket statements like the above aren't usually incorrect. I using pinning in one form or another on the majority of my systems, quite a few of which are stable. Pinning is a very useful feature, you just need to be aware of what it is doing. -- Jamin W. Collins Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. --Aldous Huxley, "Proper Studies", 1927 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
