[plug] Debian testing/unstable

[Richard Henry]

Create a file /etc/apt/apt.conf with the following line:

APT::Default-Release "testing";

That should do the trick.  You can grab stuff from unstable by something like:

	apt-get -t unstable install blah

Cheers,
Rich. 


-----Original Message-----
From: Onno Benschop [mailto:onno at itmaze.com.au] 
Sent: Saturday, 19 June 2004 9:00 AM
To: PLUG
Subject: [plug] Debian testing/unstable

Hi folks,

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?

Onno Benschop 

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