Re: apt_preferences: how to get cogito from unstable?

2005-09-16 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
On 17 Sep 2005 03:53:40 +0200, Martin Wilck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The idea is "In general I give low priority to unstable; but I don't > like version X of package Y in testing and would rather use the unstable > version of that package". How can this be cast into /etc/apt/preferences > synta

Re: apt_preferences setting

2003-01-06 Thread Travis Crump
Tom Allison wrote: I would like to have both Stable and Testing available for install. But I don't want to have packages removed because they are not in Testing. I originally started with preferences levels of Stable: 600 Testing: 601 but packages like junior-programming are slated for removal.

Re: apt_preferences setting

2003-01-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 08:45:43AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > I would like to have both Stable and Testing available for install. > > But I don't want to have packages removed because they are not in Testing. Packages aren't removed just because they're no longer in the distribution. They're rem

Re: apt_preferences

2001-11-01 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 08:19:56AM +1100, Stephen Brown wrote: | Hi All, | | I do not know if I am just lazy or whatever, but the apt_preferences man page makes no sense to me. | | How do I get a stable distrribution of debian except for the latest unstable version of gnucash? - /etc/apt