On 10/19/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/18/2007 10:47 PM, Gordon Pedersen wrote:
> > [...]
> > ...except, why were testing packages favored over stable?
>
> By default, apt-get wants to install later versions of packages, so if
> it sees both libc6 2.6.1 and libc6 2.3.6, apt-get will prefer the later
> version, 2.6.1.

Thanks.  I guess apt doesn't sense that the system is "stable" - I
wonder if there is a way to tell it so?   Maybe by pinning "*" to
stable, somehow?


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