Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:06:50AM -0600, Matt Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: >> Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > What's new in the distribution: >> > >> > - apt now has support for "pinning", which can be used to track stable, >> > while easily pulling selected updated packages from unstable or >> > testing. >> >> Is there a nice HOWTO for this? I got this working only after a fair >> amount reading terse documentation and searching mailing lists. In >> the end I just copied what somebody else said "worked for them" >> without really understanding it. > > See apt_preferences(5)?
That isn't a HOWTO, it is some of the terse documentation I mentioned. :-) -- matt

