On Thursday 09 October 2003 21:51, Vineet Kumar wrote: > That way, you know exactly which packages are being upgraded to > unofficial versions. Sometimes, with large collections of backports, > it becomes more difficult to track which packages come from where, > and which are required for what. I have no doubt that all of > Aurelien's packages are high quality, but I like specifying more > precisely exactly what I want to upgrade and resting assured that the > rest of my system is pure stable.
Now that you mention it... This is something I've been thinking about for a long time that I was about to ask about but felt I had not quite RTFMed enough about... Anyway.... I have quite a lot of backports in my sources.list, and I don't want to install backports unless I know that I need them. Most backport maintainers have a lot of packages, and that's great of course. The ideal would be if I could configure APT to just get the packages I ask for from the backporters, not the rest, and still keep the deb lines in sources.list. An apt-get upgrade would install any updates to packages I have installed, but not upgrade those I haven't installed, and only security upgrades for those.... There is some stuff in the APT HOWTO about pinning, and that could be it, but I haven't felt adventurous enough to try it out, because I feel I haven't quite grasped it. Is there some way to do this...? Best, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Astrophysicist/IT Consultant/Skeptic/Ski-orienteer/Orienteer/Mountaineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/ OpenPGP KeyID: 6A6A0BBC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
