In <h074bt$ke...@ger.gmane.org>, H.S. wrote: >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In <h06nj1$fo...@ger.gmane.org>, emikaadeo wrote: >>> H.S. wrote: >>>> Can somebody tell me if the following is possible using apt pinning? I >>>> want to install the newer version of kernel (linux-image-2.6-686, ver >>>> now is, I think, 2.6.29-3) from Untable to my Testing machine. >>>> >>>> I am thinking of using apt pinning. >> If you are just following Squeeze/Sid then it's even simpler. After >> adding unstable to sources.list, set APT::Default-Release to "testing" >> in apt.conf. Now testing will have a priority of 900, unstable will have >> a priority of 500, and installed packages will (still) have a priority >> of 100. > >So I don't need "Pin-Priority: -1" stanza at all?
Not based on my reading of your issue. >On a related note, >when is it required? Never used it myself. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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