On Thursday 29 April 2010, David Baron wrote: > Most Debian folks who will go to the trouble of deciding that one prefers a > specific version will use the appropriate option in Synaptic, etc., to > install that version. One who thinks the latest and greatest is > consistently too buggy can "pin" the version preventing unwanted upgrades. > (Simply doing apt-get upgrade (or yum or whatever) is very dangerous since > much software being blindly upgraded from unstable may be buggy or broken > so is not advised.)
You didn't get me. Pinning to a specific version will prevent an automatic update from, for example, VBox 3.1.2 to VBox 3.1.4 while this update is most often appreciated (while an automatic update from VBox 3.1.2 to VBox 3.2.0 is not). Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz
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