Re: default "Default-Release" for APT

2016-12-08 Thread Martin T
This makes sense, thanks! A good example would be libapparmor1: # apt-cache policy libapparmor1 libapparmor1: Installed: 2.9.0-3 Candidate: 2.10.95-7 Version table: 2.10.95-7 0 500 http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages 2.10.95-6 0 500 http://

Re: default "Default-Release" for APT

2016-12-08 Thread maderios
On 12/08/2016 12:11 AM, Martin T wrote: Hi, as I showed in my initial post, I don't have that file: # ls -l /etc/apt/apt.conf ls: cannot access /etc/apt/apt.conf: No such file or directory man apt.conf '/etc/apt/apt.conf is the main configuration file shared by all the tools in the APT

Re: default "Default-Release" for APT

2016-12-07 Thread Martin T
Hi, as I showed in my initial post, I don't have that file: # ls -l /etc/apt/apt.conf ls: cannot access /etc/apt/apt.conf: No such file or directory # That's what made me wondering what is the default release if "APT::Default-Release" is not configured and based on what this default release is d

Re: default "Default-Release" for APT

2016-12-07 Thread maderios
On 12/07/2016 07:26 PM, Martin T wrote: Hi, I read the apt_preferences man page and it says that "To configure the default release in the configuration file, use: APT::Default-Release "stable";". While I have multiple distributions in sources.list file(stable, testing, unstable, jessie-backports