Re: apt/pins: Why does apt try to downgrade?

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 06:52:25PM +0200, Thomas Schoepf wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 07:25:59AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Short answer: Use pin of 90 instead of 700 for mozilla-browser and > > others in /etc/apt/preferences. > > Won't that prevent upgrades when mozilla-browser_2:1+rc2-3 is

Re: apt/pins: Why does apt try to downgrade?

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 07:25:59AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Short answer: Use pin of 90 instead of 700 for mozilla-browser and > others in /etc/apt/preferences. Won't that prevent upgrades when mozilla-browser_2:1+rc2-3 is available in unstable? What I want is: use some packages from unstable if

Re: apt/pins: Why does apt try to downgrade?

Hi, apt preference is confusing. Short answer: Use pin of 90 instead of 700 for mozilla-browser and others in /etc/apt/preferences. Read on ! On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 01:59:51PM +0200, Thomas Schoepf wrote: > I'm using apt_preferences to follow testing and to use mozilla from > unstable. That wor

apt/pins: Why does apt try to downgrade?

Hi, I'm using apt_preferences to follow testing and to use mozilla from unstable. That works just fine. Now I've downloaded the mozilla source tar and diff and changed a few things. I versioned this new package "2:1+rc2-2.1". Now "apt-get upgrade" wants to downgrade to "2:1+rc2-2". As far as I u