I tried to read the man page for apt_preferences but I am still not sure I understand what to do. I have a number of questions - any help would be welcome.
First - does /etc/apt/preferences file apply when you use dselect, or only when you use apt-get? Second - what I currently do is a) have /etc/apt/sources.list lines that get my packages from testing b) When I want packages from unstable - I manually ftp them from debian.org mirror to a local mirror - manually also trying to also copy all the dependent packages - and refer to them with a separate sources.list line. It seems to me that the /etc/apt/preferences file would be a better approach, with some lines like Package:* Pin: a=testing Pin Priority: 500 Package: xxx Pin: a=unstable Pin Priority: 998 Where xxx is the package name I want to install from unstable. Is this correct? What about the packages on which xxx depends? -- Alan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
