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
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
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
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
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 23:48:39 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> 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
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.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
>> >>
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 [
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,
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
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
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
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
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