Hi
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 11:43, 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
If you have deb-src lines pointing at stable and unstable apt-get source
will get the latest (ie, unstable) version. Use apt-get source
<pkg>=<version> to get other versions.
From the apt-get manpage
source source causes apt-get to fetch source packages. APT will
examine the available packages to decide which source
package to fetch. It will then find and download into the
current directory the newest available version of that
source package. Source packages are tracked separately
from binary packages via deb-src type lines in the
sources.list(5) file. This probably will mean that you
will not get the same source as the package you have in-
stalled or as you could install. If the --compile options
is specified then the package will be compiled to a bina-
ry .deb using dpkg-buildpackage, if --download-only is
specified then the source package will not be unpacked.
A specific source version can be retrieved by postfixing
the source name with an equals and then the version to
fetch, similar to the mechanism used for the package
files. This enables exact matching of the source package
name and version, implicitly enabling the APT::Get::On-
ly-Source option.
HTH
Andrew
