On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 02:44:48PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > I'm having a bit of trouble visualizing how that works; can you spell > > out your apt settings? > > Something like this (not my exact settings): > > Package: * > Pin: release a=stable > Pin-Priority: 700 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=testing > Pin-Priority: 650 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=unstable > Pin-Priority: 600 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=experimental > Pin-Priority: 550 > > The priorities need to be > 500 and < 1000.
==> /etc/apt/preferences.d/experimental <== Package: * Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: 50 ==> /etc/apt/preferences.d/testing <== Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 800 ==> /etc/apt/preferences.d/unstable <== Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 700 ==> /etc/apt/preferences.d/stable <== Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 500 (actually I do not have the last one: 500 is the value given to non-specified versions). If you have a default release, it is given 990 without any other intervention. What you should care for is giving priorities between 101 and 989 to non-default release. I use a script called apt-origins to check where my packages come from (for example, I only have unison-2.13.16 and xpdf installed from stable). I prefer to always rate stable lower than testing, because a package that is no more in testing but is in stable is suspicious at best (it was removed from testing at some point). And for the rest of the thread, I use pbuilder chroots. Testing of non-controversial packages goes on either my home box (unstable/testing, arch=amd64) or my lab box (testing/unstable, arch=amd64 kernel+i386 userland) or my laptop (testing/unstable, arch=i386). The more complicated things I have a kvm virtual machine for, except for drivers and such. Sincerly -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100331090029.ga9...@oberon.tenebreuse.org
