Pinning question

2003-09-15 Thread Ryan Walters
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 th

Re: Pinning question

2003-09-15 Thread Ryan Walters
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:23:46 -0400, you wrote: >> Package: * >> Pin: release potato >> Pin-Priority: 800 >> >> Package: * >> Pin: release woody >> Pin-Priority: 200 >> > >When I read the man pages for apt_preferences, the format is Pin: >release a=stable, not pin: release woody. Maybe this will

Re: Pinning question

2003-09-16 Thread Ryan Walters
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:29:49 +0100, you wrote: >On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:24:54 -0600 Ryan Walters wrote: >> 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], bu

Re: Pinning question

2003-09-16 Thread Ryan Walters
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:21:29 +0100, you wrote: >On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:00:11 -0600 Ryan Walters wrote: >> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:29:49 +0100, you wrote: >> >> >On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:24:54 -0600 Ryan Walters wrote: >> >> Hi, I've been trying to figu

Re: Potato apt sources.list

2003-09-17 Thread Ryan Walters
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:04:17 +0200, you wrote: >Hi group, > >I know potato is obsolete, but today I wanted to update a machine the >last time, before I do a distribution-update to woody. > >But it seems, some apt sources are broken now, I get errors like the >following when doing "apt-get update