On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 13:25:50 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > If I am not mistaken, it is possible to avoid this > worst case scenario by appropriately setting up apt's > preferences. Suppose I set the priorities of distributions > as follows > stable 900 > testing 800 > unstable 700 > and, starting with a woody system, upgrade a single package > foo to version vvv from unstable > apt-get -t unstable install foo > which pulls in unstable libc6. Later when I do > apt-get dist-upgrade > apt will upgrade most packages from stable but will > upgrade foo from unstable, or from testing if version vvv > has made it into testing; and likewise libc6.
There would still be security problems for installed packages that are in testing: the upgrade to unstable (to get the fixed package) won't be automatical. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> - 100% validated (X)HTML - Acorn Risc PC, Yellow Pig 17, Championnat International des Jeux Mathématiques et Logiques, TETRHEX, etc. Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
