On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 18:06:33 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan <sir...@gmail.com> wrote: > what i want to do is, i want some packages that are available in wheezy , > Sid and unstable repositories, however they are very old in squeeze. > i also want to keep my system uptodate for any security patchs. with > command apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade > but if i run above commands while having entries of sid and unstable in > sourcelist file it will upgrade my OS to unstable which i do not want.
Use APT pinning. From man page of apt_preferences: 0 < P <=100 causes a version to be installed only if there is no installed version of the package So, try something like this: Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 50 It's also from the same man page :). -- Fascism has many faces. http://markorandjelovic.hopto.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140108141053.546a2...@eunet.rs