On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 18:06:33 +0500
Muhammad Yousuf Khan <[email protected]> wrote:
> what i want to do is, i want some packages that are available in wheezy ,
> Sid and unstable repositories, however they are very old in squeeze.
> i also want to keep my system uptodate for any security patchs. with
> command apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade
> but if i run above commands while having entries of sid and unstable in
> sourcelist file it will upgrade my OS to unstable which i do not want.
Use APT pinning. From man page of apt_preferences:
0 < P <=100
causes a version to be installed only if there is no installed
version of the package
So, try something like this:
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 50
It's also from the same man page :).
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