[Gllug] Debian versions

[itsbruce at uklinux.net]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:16:10AM +0000, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> On Oct 30 2002, Jonathan wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm currently running debian woody but I want to install a couple of
> > packages from testing (along with any of the dependencies it needs.  Could
> > someone suggest the best way of going about this?
> > 
> > apt-get install <packagename>/testing
> > 
> > seems like the right thing but that needs testing in my sources file, which
> > would cause everything to update wouldn't it?
> 
> No problem. You can use the pinning features of apt. Just add the
> relevant lines in /etc/apt/sources.list, then put this in
> /etc/apt/preferences:

By "the relevant lines" he means that you should duplicate the existing
lines for woody, replacing 'woody' with 'sarge' (or 'stable' with
'testing').  apt-get then builds package lists for both distributions
and you use /etc/apt/apt_preferences to set which package comes from
where.  Stig's example sets relative priorities for different
distributions, so that a package would be sought first in stable, then
(if not found) in testing and so on.  You can also specify preferences
for individual packages.

> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=stable
> Pin-Priority: 900
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 300
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=unstable
> Pin-Priority: 200
> 
> 
> After that, do an apt-get update as normal and then do 
> 
> 	apt-get install -t testing <packagename>
> 
> Read apt-get's man page for more info.

and man apt_preferences

-- 
Bruce

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