On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 7:07 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 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
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 4:15 PM, Brendan Miller
Further troubleshooting info:
I ran apt-get policy and it appears my preferences aren't getting
picked up. Does anyone know why this might happen, or what can be done
to force the preferences file to reload?
apt-cache policy
Package files:
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
release a=now
500 http://
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
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