On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:03:01PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > Yeah, I noticed that. Even between testing and unstable, some unstable > packages require libc6 >= unstable's version so I get the unstable libc. > The biggest problem here is that to tell apt you only want the unstable > version of a package so you can use some other package, you have to pin it > with the preferences file. If you don't, then apt will track the unstable > version of that package, even if that isn't needed to keep the unstable > version of some other package happy. Sometimes, you can just wait a bit and > testing will catch up with where unstable was, and apt should just upgrade > to the newest testing version.
You can solve this problem by pinning unstable to a priority under 100 in the preferences file (see the manpage for details). -- James Deikun, Techie(tm), CSI Multimedia The opinions expressed &c.