On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 03:50:17PM -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > 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.
I agree and I have recently addedd few warning words on myocument to prevent more newbies getting trapped. (debian-reference-en) The thing is so many programs depend on newer glibc, perl, bash, ... Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
