I can't believe that it would be a problem, as I imagine your
/etc/apt/preferences would cause an error, but do you have a "stable"
line in your /etc/apt/sources.list?
all i can say is that's weird
A
Daniel Webb wrote:
I've been using Debian for 5 years, so I thought I understood how package
priorities work, but apparently I don't. Why is it pulling the packages from
unstable instead of stable?
$ apt-get source -b fakeroot
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Need to get 981kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://ftp3.nrc.ca unstable/main fakeroot 1.5.6 (dsc) [707B]
Get:2 http://ftp3.nrc.ca unstable/main fakeroot 1.5.6 (tar) [980kB]
<snip>
-----
/etc/apt/preferences:
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 1001
-----
/etc/apt/apt.conf:
APT
{
Default-Release "stable";
Cache-Limit 12582912;
// Options for apt-get
Get
{
Purge;
Download-Only "false";
};
};
// Options for the downloading routines
Acquire
{
Retries "0";
};
// Things that effect the APT dselect method
DSelect
{
Clean "auto"; // always|auto|prompt|never
};
DPkg
{
// Probably don't want to use force-downgrade..
Options {"--force-overwrite";}
}
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