Re: Why no apt-pinning by release name?

2008-12-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:00:14PM +0100, bugtrac...@slideomania.com wrote: ... > Long story short, why is it not possible to pin by release name? Searching > for > this returns lots of web pages that show examples with pinning by release > name, and I'm wondering why they all propose somet

Re: Why no apt-pinning by release name?

2008-12-17 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
bugtrac...@slideomania.com wrote: > Hi list, > > recently I was trying to install a package from lenny on etch, that has no > backport available (yet; request has been filed). I was > configuring /etc/apt/apt-conf and /etc/apt/preferences as I saw fit, but > learned "the hard way" that it's see

Why no apt-pinning by release name?

2008-12-17 Thread bugtrac...@slideomania.com
Hi list, recently I was trying to install a package from lenny on etch, that has no backport available (yet; request has been filed). I was configuring /etc/apt/apt-conf and /etc/apt/preferences as I saw fit, but learned "the hard way" that it's seemingly not possible to pin releases by their