On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 04:01:38AM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jul 2022, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > and, of course: > > > > apt-mark hold sysvinit-core > > > > To prevent systemd from being auto-installed in some future upgrade. > > You most likely want some pinning.
I've never found pinning to be of much use. When I did have an actual use for it (many years ago, during the gnome 2 -> gnome 3 transition), it required constant work and tweaking of the pinning rules to get it to do what I wanted. Far more work than it was worth - I ended up just purging gnome and switching to xfce instead. Having `APT::Default-Release "unstable";` is enough for my needs. That allows me to run sid and cherry pick a few things (mostly nvidia-kernel-dkms and friends) from experimental. With that default release, apt will only install from unstable unless I explicitly force it to with `-t experimental`. Works for me. Or `APT::Default-Release "stable";` allows a system to run stable and cherry-pick from testing/sid/experimental plus backports as needed. > Just held in dpkg or even marked as XB-Important: yes often brings apt to > tears in sid, i.e. refusing to dist-upgrade at all. Yeah, but I **want** apt to chuck a wobbly, it alerts me to the fact that there are problems that need manual intervention and/or that I need to wait a few days/weeks for updated packages. I don't run a dist-upgrade every day anyway, so waiting is no big deal. craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>
