Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Well, I was hoping someone would have made a tool to entire this data by > now..
Ah I see. I've pondered before having base-config ask something about it and set something up, but I don't know if it's worth the bother. > > X-Comment: This example /etc/apt/preferences file causes the system to > > X-Comment: track testing (or whatever is specified after "a="). Packages > > X-Comment: may be upgraded individually to their unstable versions, and > > X-Comment: apt will then track the unstable version. See apt_preferences(5) > > X-Comment: for details. > > Mm, you won't get that effect if you use -10, you have to use something > higher than 100. Basically, to get what you describe, it is sufficient to > put > APT::Default-Release "testing"; > > in apt.conf (-t command line option). To eliminate unstable from selection > it is equally effective to remove it from the sources.list. Hmm, I can pull packages from unstable with the described file. I'm not 100% sure they continue upgrading from unstable after that. > The preferences file's default option is really only super-useful if you > want to do complicated selections involving non-debian sources, that was > why I added it. I see.. -- see shy jo
