I have a laptop that functions 'just right' hardware wise so I have no interest in upgrading the compiled kernel (2.6.26 I believe), xorg, or rhythmbox (11.6). Newer kernels seem to break my fglrx and madwifi setups along with the newer rhythmbox giving me grief.
I am looking into apt pinning for the first time and while I'm reading up would like a little clarification. Is pinning going to be the best way to hold these specific packages indefinitely? What is the specific After pinning will I be able to 'aptitude dist-upgrade' without worry of overwriting these packages? It seems that in /etc/apt/preferences I just need to put: Package: rhythmbox Pin: version 11.6* Pin-Priority: 1001 and that will hold Rhythmbox at the current installed version. Will marking the packages in Aptitude 'manual' do the same thing? Ideally once I finish this exercise I will be able to do a dist-upgrade to Testing (Squeeze will be listed in my sources.list) and not worry about changing these particular programs. This is pretty important since I will be giving this machine to a friend that will not be able to troubleshoot if something breaks X or wifi. Anyone doing something similar? Thanks. -- Arrant Drivel - really, it's just trash... http://www.arrantdrivel.com/ Where the road takes me - a highwayman's perspective http://www.prestonboyington.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
