Vincent, On 13 October 2005 at 13:06, Vincent Goulet wrote: | Le 12 Octobre 2005 18:03, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : | > i) In general, and especially between 'testing' and 'unstable', use | > apt-pinning, explained in the apt-howto packages, esp apt-howto-en for | > English; and on various places across the Net; try Google'ing for | > apt-pinning. | | Dear Dirk, | | I'll jump in because I've been wondering how to do this for some time. | | Is there any way to pin a whole series of packages using wildcards? I can | otherwise pin r-base and r-recommended, but the packages they depend on will | not be pinned themselves. | | It thus seems the only way to have 'unstable' R packages on my 'testing' | system is to list them all in /etc/apt/preferences. It is neither convenient | nor "safe" since I will eventually miss unlisted packages.
Good question, and I don't have an answer. This may be a question for debian-user ... On my machines, I have a local archive containing my builds for Debian so I get packages such as R and the r-cran-* packages from there. Amicalement, Dirk -- Statistics: The (futile) attempt to offer certainty about uncertainty. -- Roger Koenker, 'Dictionary of Received Ideas of Statistics' ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html