I wasn't sure what venue was best to ask this in, so if this is the wrong place please direct me to the correct place.
I'm using APT pinning to pull packages from both Ubuntu Karmic(stable) and Ubuntu Lucid(testing) but I'm having problems getting APT to produce the behavior I want. What I want it to do is generally get packages from Karmic(stable). Except when I explicitly specify that I want something from Lucid(testing), at which point I want it to meet as much of the dependencies as it can from Karmic(stable) but where the Karmic(stable) packages aren't new enough it should get them from Lucid(testing). I've tried several different configurations but none of them seem to work. Currently I have Lucid(testing) pinned at 400 with Package: * Pin: release lucid Pin-Priority: 400 And I don't have a release set so Karmic(stable) is defaulting to 500. This meets the requirement of generally getting packages from Karmic(stable), but I'm having problems with the Lucid(testing) side of the setup. I am aware of two ways of installing packages from Lucid(testing) 1: sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5/lucid This will only pull dependencies from Karmic(stable) and will generally fail because some supporting package doesn't have a high enough version in Karmic(stable). Now of course I could go through recursively by hand and resolve every unmet dependency, but that quickly gets very tedious. 2: sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5 -t lucid This will pull all required dependencies from Lucid(testing). Even those that could have been met from Karmic(stable), which unnecessarily pollutes my system with Lucid(testing) packages. What am I missing here? Gordon P.S. I'm not subscribed to the list, it'd be handy if people could CC me on any replies but I intend to keep an eye on the list archive anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org