Re: pinning question

2009-09-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 17 September 2009 12:05:32 Preston Boyington wrote: > I have a laptop that functions 'just right' hardware wise so I have no > interest in upgrading the compiled kernel (2.6.26 I believe), xorg, or > rhythmbox (11.6). > > I am looking into apt pinning for the first time and while I'm re

Re: Pinning question

2003-12-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 10:10:37AM -0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > Em Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:47:21 -0500, Rich B escreveu: > > > One of my servers is running stable, but I've added Unstable > > If you *really, really* want to do it, there is a section on > running mixed

Re: Pinning question

2003-12-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
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 casc

Re: Pinning question

2003-12-05 Thread Jamin W. Collins
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 i

Re: Pinning question

2003-12-05 Thread Paul Morgan
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 23:48:39 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:47:21AM -0500, Rich B wrote: >> What did I do wrong? I thought my Pin-prioritys would prevent anything >> from upgrading to Sid unless I explicitly asked for i

Re: Pinning question

2003-12-05 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:47:21 -0500, Rich B escreveu: > One of my servers is running stable, but I've added Unstable If you *really, really* want to do it, there is a section on running mixed distributions in the apt HOWTO manual. -- Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corsetti Dutra <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Pinning question

2003-12-05 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:47:21AM -0500, Rich B wrote: > What did I do wrong? I thought my Pin-prioritys would prevent anything > from upgrading to Sid unless I explicitly asked for it. Don't pin between stable and anything newer, or you'll end up j

Re: Pinning question

2003-12-05 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:47:21AM -0500, Rich B wrote: > One of my servers is running stable, but I've added Unstable to my > /etc/apt/sources file, and in /etc/apt/preferences I put: > > Package: * > Pin: release stable > Pin-priority: 900 > > Package: * > Pin: release testing > Pi

Re: Pinning question

2003-12-04 Thread Mark Roach
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 09:47, Rich B wrote: > One of my servers is running stable, but I've added Unstable to my > /etc/apt/sources file, and in /etc/apt/preferences I put: [snip pinned stable,testing and unstable] Before you go down this road, be aware that pinning is almost certainly a bad idea

Re: Pinning question

2003-09-16 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:06:48 -0600 Ryan Walters wrote: > ... > No, I installed woody's apt, and apt-utils first, as I did read that > potato's apt didn't do pinning. > > You're right though, I'm don't think I'll bother with a mixed system, > too much hassle. One thing I know will work fine, is us

Re: Pinning question

2003-09-16 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Ryan Walters wrote: The reason, is that I have an old laptop that runs perfectly well in X with potato. The minute I upgrade to a later distribution, X is completely not usable no matter what window manager I choose. However, running potato by itself means I can't run most of the software out the

Re: Pinning question

2003-09-16 Thread Ryan Walters
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:21:29 +0100, you wrote: >On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:00:11 -0600 Ryan Walters wrote: >> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:29:49 +0100, you wrote: >> >> >On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:24:54 -0600 Ryan Walters wrote: >> >> Hi, I've been trying to figure this out for a few days now, and can't >> >>

Re: Pinning question

2003-09-16 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:00:11 -0600 Ryan Walters wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:29:49 +0100, you wrote: > > >On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:24:54 -0600 Ryan Walters wrote: > >> Hi, I've been trying to figure this out for a few days now, and can't > >> seem to get it to work. I want to pin not based on [

Re: Pinning question

2003-09-16 Thread Ryan Walters
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:29:49 +0100, you wrote: >On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:24:54 -0600 Ryan Walters wrote: >> Hi, I've been trying to figure this out for a few days now, and can't >> seem to get it to work. I want to pin not based on [stable, testing, >> unstable], but based on distribution release,

Re: Pinning question

2003-09-16 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:59:57 -0600 Jacob Anawalt wrote: > ... > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200304/msg04011.html > On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 00:16:11 +0100 Colin Watson wrote: > > ... > > I didn't realize you were interested in strange multi-release stuff. I > > don't trust pi

Re: Pinning question

2003-09-16 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:24:54 -0600 Ryan Walters wrote: > Hi, I've been trying to figure this out for a few days now, and can't > seem to get it to work. I want to pin not based on [stable, testing, > unstable], but based on distribution release, in my case, [woody, > potato]. > ... > /etc/apt/pre

Re: Pinning question

2003-09-15 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Ryan Walters wrote: [snip] I'm still not sure why my setup doesn't work: [snip] I must be something extremely simple that I'm missing, anybody else??? Ryan, You may think horrible things of me for giving this response instead of an answer to your question, but I stand behind Collin's o

Re: Pinning question

2003-09-15 Thread Ryan Walters
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:23:46 -0400, you wrote: >> Package: * >> Pin: release potato >> Pin-Priority: 800 >> >> Package: * >> Pin: release woody >> Pin-Priority: 200 >> > >When I read the man pages for apt_preferences, the format is Pin: >release a=stable, not pin: release woody. Maybe this will