-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 13 Jan 2003 23:30, Marcus C. Gottwald wrote: > Paul Cupis wrote (Mon 2003-Jan-13 23:02:13 +0000): > > Hmmm, firstly, I don't you should use 990 as the 'stable' priority - 990 > > is also used as the manual priority set with the -t option to apt-get. > > What is your suggestion instead? I thought that if I give e.g. > "-t foo", packages from "Debian stable" should be preferred if > they have a higher version number.
Personally, I use 900 in this case - that way I can use "-t unstable" (or whatever) to override the default choice of stable/testing/whatever. e.g. Package: * Pin: release stable Pin-priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release testing Pin-priority: 50 Package: * Pin: release unstable Pin-priority: 30 With this method, packages from 'stable' are the default. Packages from testing/unstable are only installed is the package I want to install does not exist in stable at all. If I want to use a package version from testing, I can override it's priority to 990 (beating the 900 of stable) with: apt-get install foo -t testing I also findit convenient to use apt-show-versions(1) to keep track of updates to files from different distributions. It is perhaps not so useful at the moment on a mixed Woody/Sarge system (due to glic differences), but immensely useful on mixed testing/unstable systems. Regards, Paul Cupis - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+I1b3IzuKV+SHX/kRAnDPAJ0eNxj5DwzopANVt2YSZ3laEdhdUQCfRocZ 67jq3WN/1x1IsWE2gjmOiYw= =d6xj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
