Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.3-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man8/aptitude-curses.8.gz
At -t <release>, --target-release <release> Set the release from which packages should be installed. For instance, "aptitude -t experimental ..." will install packages from the experimental distribution unless you specify otherwise. This will affect the default candidate version of packages according to the rules described in apt_preferences(5). This corresponds to the configuration item APT::Default-Release. please remind the user that -t is not the same as "/" To select a particular version of the package, append "=<version>" to the package name: for instance, "aptitude install apt=0.3.1". Similarly, to select a package from a particular archive, append "/<archive>" to the package name: for instance, "aptitude install apt/experimental". You cannot specify both an archive and a version for a package. and that they should use "/" for cases like: # apt-cache policy $@ midori: Installed: 0.5.12~wk2-exp1 Candidate: 0.5.12~wk2-exp1 Version table: *** 0.5.12~wk2-exp1 990 990 http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian experimental/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 0.5.11-ds1-4 500 500 http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian unstable/main i386 Packages # aptitude -t unstable install $@ midori is already installed at the requested version (0.5.12~wk2-exp1) midori is already installed at the requested version (0.5.12~wk2-exp1) The following packages will NOT be UPGRADED: debian-reference-en libcurses-perl{a} libnet-ssleay-perl{a} libperl5.22{a} (R: libarchive-tar-perl, R: libcompress-raw-bzip2-perl, R: libcompress-raw-zlib-perl, R: libcompress-zlib-perl, R: libdigest-md5-perl, R: libdigest-sha-perl, R: libencode-perl, R: libio-compress-base-perl, R: libio-compress-bzip2-perl, R: libio-compress-perl, R: libio-compress-zlib-perl, R: libmime-base64-perl, R: libmodule-corelist-perl, R: libstorable-perl, R: libsys-syslog-perl, R: libthreads-perl, R: libthreads-shared-perl, R: libtime-hires-perl, R: libtime-piece-perl, R: perl, R: perl-base) libxml-libxml-perl{a} perl perl-base perl-doc No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Current status: 0 (+0) broken, 8 (+0) upgradable, 52313 (+0) new. # aptitude -t unstable reinstall $@ The following packages will be REINSTALLED: midori The following packages will NOT be UPGRADED: debian-reference-en libcurses-perl{a} libnet-ssleay-perl{a} libperl5.22{a} (R: libarchive-tar-perl, R: libcompress-raw-bzip2-perl, R: libcompress-raw-zlib-perl, R: libcompress-zlib-perl, R: libdigest-md5-perl, R: libdigest-sha-perl, R: libencode-perl, R: libio-compress-base-perl, R: libio-compress-bzip2-perl, R: libio-compress-perl, R: libio-compress-zlib-perl, R: libmime-base64-perl, R: libmodule-corelist-perl, R: libstorable-perl, R: libsys-syslog-perl, R: libthreads-perl, R: libthreads-shared-perl, R: libtime-hires-perl, R: libtime-piece-perl, R: perl, R: perl-base) libxml-libxml-perl{a} perl perl-base perl-doc 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/1,097 kB of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] (Reading database ... 138223 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../midori_0.5.12~wk2-exp1_i386.deb ... Unpacking midori (0.5.12~wk2-exp1) over (0.5.12~wk2-exp1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1) ... Setting up midori (0.5.12~wk2-exp1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-0experimental1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-1) ... Current status: 0 (+0) broken, 8 (+0) upgradable, 52313 (+0) new.