Hi, I've been trying to figure this out for a few days now, and can't seem to get it to work. I want to pin not based on [stable, testing, unstable], but based on distribution release, in my case, [woody, potato].
I want to have a mainly potato system, with select packages from woody. I have the main, contrib, and non-free sections for both in sources.list. This is an exerpt from the man page I thought was relevant: "If the first character of the specification is a digit then it is considered to be a release version match, otherwise a release label match. Specifications which contain equals are full release data matches and are a comma seperated list of one letter keys followed by an equals then by the string." I thought this was telling me I could do something like this: /etc/apt/preferences: Package: * Pin: release potato Pin-Priority: 800 Package: * Pin: release woody Pin-Priority: 200 This however didn't change anything, it still wanted to take all the woody versions of packages, the same as before the preferences file existed. I also tried pinning this way, as also described in the man page: Package: * Pin: release v=2.2* Pin-Priority: 800 Package: * Pin: release v=3.0* Pin-Priority: 200 This also didn't work, as described above. I also tried other ways, but these two I though would be correct. I assume this sort of thing is possible, what am I doing wrong? TIA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
