Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
So in that case, what would be the solution? I guess we would have to know what testing packages have fixes in unstable, and then use the "-t unstable" option to apt-get ... correct? -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]