[plug] Debian testing/unstable

[Bernard Blackham]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 06:21:59PM +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 10:59:47AM +1000, Onno Benschop wrote:
> > Silly question I suspect, but I'm running Debian testing. I also have
> > the unstable sources in my sources.list because some packages need to
> > come from there because they depend on crap that I don't use.
> > 
> > When I update my packages list followed by apt-get upgrade, I now seem
> > to get a whole lot of unstable packages with urgency=low that want to be
> > installed.
> > 
> > I do not want this behaviour. I want to use *only* testing, except for
> > when I specifically ask for an unstable package, and only for the time
> > that I ask for it, not for updates or anything else.
> > 
> > How do I achieve this?
> 
> The magic lines you require in /etc/apt/preferences are:
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=unstable
> Pin-Priority: -10
> 
> man preferences will tell you more and may confuse you completely
> (it has done to me several times), but the above is the essential
> bit :)

Actually, I also recall seeing the APT::Default-Release option in
apt.conf, but I could never get this to behave a year or two ago.

YMMV,
Bernard.

-- 
 Bernard Blackham <bernard at blackham dot com dot au>