It's easy, and helpful. :) Create/Add...
Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-priority: 50 ...To your /etc/apt/preferences, and add a sid source at the end of your /etc/apt/sources.list. If you're using potato, you'd change the 'Pin: release a=testing' line to 'Pin: release a=stable'. With that done, to install a package[s] from sid, use apt-get -t unstable install <whatever>. If I made any big errors, someone correct me. :) On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 19:23, Scott Henson wrote: > A few weeks ago I heard something about pinning in apt. If I remember > correctly you can put sid in your sources.list and pin its urgency down > to 50 and there for you could install stuff in sid with out upgradeing > to sid. Or something to that effect. Ive looked through the archives, > but I cant find it. I have also looked through the apt man pages, but I > havent found it yet. If someone knows where I could find out how to use > this, or just tell me how to do it, I would be very gracious. > > > -- > -Scott Henson > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty: power is ever stealing from > the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each > day, or it is rotten... The > hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit > de corps, the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual > oversight can the democrat in office be > prevented from hardening into a despot: only by unintermitted agitation > can a people be kept sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty > be smothered in material > prosperity... Never look, for an age when the people can be quiet and > safe. At such times despotism, like a shrouding mist, steals over the > mirror of Freedom" - Wendell > Phillips > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >