On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 00:22:50 -0500
Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> in /etc/apt/preferences to fix the problem.  If you install a package 
> from unstable and then the package in the unstable archive is
> upgraded. 
>   Then the version you have installed is no longer available and
>   reverts 
> to a pin of 100, but the package just uploaded to unstable has a pin
> of 500 which is greater than 100 and the version number is higher so
> apt wants to upgrade it.  This config change gives the newly uploaded 
> unstable package a pin of 40 which is lower than any installed
> packages.

Great explanation!  Thanks for the help.

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Stephen W. Juranich                         [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Electrical Engineering         http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic
University of Washington            http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli


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