On 2010-09-26 11:20 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > I use apt-pinning to mix stable, testing and sid. because of a bug in > Squeeze I've installed fglrx-modules-dkms from sid. Today I got an > update for my fglrx packages I noticed these were pulled in from a sid > repository. My question is the following: if you install a package > from an unstable repository does it mean that apt/aptitude then tracks > unstable updates for that package?
That depends on the Pin-Priority you use for it, see apt_preferences(5). Could you show your /etc/apt/preferences file? > And is it possible to prevent a specific package version from being > updated (like package.mask in Gentoo)? If you _only_ use aptitude, "aptitude hold <package>" works¹. Unfortunately this is ignored by apt-get, you can use "echo <package> hold" | dpkg --set-selections". Sven ¹ This is not totally reliable with lenny's aptitude, but squeeze's aptitude should always respect it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/871v8ger7x....@turtle.gmx.de
