Hello, I am keeping a stable/testing mixed system using pinning with aptitude. My /etc/apt/preferences file looks like this:
Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 600 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 500 This works great installing all stable packages, but using testing packages when stable doesn't exist. But now I want to always keep testing sources for spamassassin and clamav. I thought I should be able to do something like this: Package: spamassassin Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 700 Package: clamav Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 700 But that doesn't work because the dependencies are still tied to stable. Is there a way to get aptitude to install a dependency from testing if the version requirement is not met by stable? The only way I could get it work was to add: Package: libc6 Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 700 Package: libc6-dev Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 700 ... and on and on until all dependency requirements are met. This seems like a messy solution and now libclamav1 requires libcurl3 from testing. I don't want to have to chase down the dependencies every time there is a change. I'd appreciate any suggestions. How are other people maintaining their mixed systems? -- Take care, eh. Chris
