On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 08:29:31PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > I have a system that is mostly debian testing. But I have apt set up > so that apt-get update fetches information about both the > testing(woody) and unstable(sid) archives. I have /etc/apt/preferences > set up thus: > > Package: * > Pin: release a=testing > Pin-Priority: 900 > > Package: * > Pin: release o=Debian > Pin-Priority: -10
..... > But it seems to me that apt-get did not behave according to > expectation here. I thought that: > > apt-get install mozilla-browser/unstable > > would automatically bring down the packages from unstable that the > version of mozilla-browser in unstable depended on. > > Was I wrong in this expectation, or is there something wrong with the > way that dependencies are calculated for mozilla-browser in the > unstable distribution? I believe the problem is (at least partly) that you have a pin priority of -1 on unstable, which means that apt will never install an unstable package, unless you explicitely tell it to. I suspect you probably want a pin priority of 300 or so. However, I'm still not sure whether apt will pull up the unstable library when there is a testing version available... -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
