Re: trouble getting apt-pinning to work

2012-11-08 Thread Brendan Miller
Ok, after spending some more time with the manpages, I figured out my own problem: Pin: release a=wheezy Should have been: Pin: release n=wheezy Apparently it makes a distinction between the code name, and release type like "stable" or "testing." On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:1

Re: trouble getting apt-pinning to work

2012-11-08 Thread Brendan Miller
kages release v=6.0.6,o=Debian,a=stable,n=squeeze,l=Debian,c=main origin ftp-mirror.internap.com Pinned packages: On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Brendan Miller wrote: > I'm on debian stable (squeeze), but would like to be able to install a > few packages from testing (wheezy). I tri

trouble getting apt-pinning to work

2012-11-08 Thread Brendan Miller
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 a