Hello, I'm a long-time Linux user now experimenting with Debian for the first time. I have a problem setting up apt package preferences.
I am using sarge with this apt.conf: APT::Default-Release "stable"; I have configured testing/unstable as additional sources in sources.list. My /etc/apt/preferences file looks like this: Explanation: Keep unstable priority below installed Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 80 I came across bug 317914 which prevented me from unpacking Linus' kernel tree, and I thought it might be a good idea to add a preferences rule like this: Package: cogito Pin: version 0.11.3* Pin-Priority: -10 To my understanding, "apt-get remove cogito; apt-get install cogito" with these settings should install version 0.12.1 from unstable instead of the broken testing version 0.11.3+20050610-1. However, I am still getting 0.11.3. I have tried many other variations (assigning high priority to 0.12.x, changing the rule order, using Pin: release instead of Pin: version, ...), but always with the same outcome. So I ended up doing simply "apt-get -t unstable install cogito", but I'm mnot satisfied with that solution. I'd like to understand why I couldn't get the preferences to work as desired. The idea is "In general I give low priority to unstable; but I don't like version X of package Y in testing and would rather use the unstable version of that package". How can this be cast into /etc/apt/preferences syntax? Regards and thanks, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
