Also sprach Colin Watson (Sat 21 Jun 02003 at 12:58:47PM +0100): > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 07:20:16AM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote: > > On Fri, June 20 at 5:19 PM EDT > > "Michael D. Schleif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Based on the preferences set, I fail to see how my update installs so > > > much un-stable ?!?! > > > > Can I ask why you do $dselect update instead of $apt-get update ? Maybe > > dselect looks at /etc/apt/sources.list and doesn't ever > > look at the /etc/apt/preferences file? > > No. Michael is doing the right thing here. When configured to use apt as > its access method (as is the default), 'dselect update' runs 'apt-get > update' and then merges the output into dpkg's available file. I advise > never using 'apt-get update' directly.
Thank you. I know that I'd read that suggestion somewhere, and since,
I've made it my habit. However, for purposes of a cronjob, how do I do
_this_ with dselect ???
apt-get -q=2 update
Secondly, on the subject topic, I remain confused ;>
Yes, I may want some un-stable on this system. I have read much of the
apt howto, and all of sections 3.8 & 3.10.
I still do not see how my configuration allows those un-stable
installations.
It is not so much that I minded installing those particular packages at
un-stable; but, I do *NOT* understand the logic behind my preferences
selecting those particular packages for installation.
I hope that I have now made my intentions clear: I need to fully
understand the logic behind configuring defaults/preferences, and I want
to be able to _predict_ what can and cannot be installed in that manner.
What do you think?
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