[Gllug] Running a package from unstable in Debian lenny

[Chris Bell]

On Sat 22 Nov, Chris Bell wrote:
> 
> Hello,
>    I have a box running Debian Lenny, the current Debian testing, which I
> want to follow Lenny as it becomes the stable version, but I want to use it
> as a dedicated box running zoneminder which is currently held in unstable.
> All dependencies are met by packages available in Lenny. I updated all the
> Lenny packages using aptitude, then tried to
> 
> apt-get install -t unstable zoneminder
> 
> but that failed because /etc/apt/sources.list did not include a source of
> unstable. I edited /etc/apt/apt.conf to make
> 
> Default-Release "lenny"
> 
> and then added a source of Debian unstable to /etc/apt/sources.list before
> again running aptitude. This time an aptitude u (update) showed zoneminder
> as available, but it also showed that 277 installed packages have updates
> available. I would normally just run aptitude U to update all packages with
> updates available, but now I do not want to install unstable packages when
> there is a Lenny (testing) package available. I thought that this would be
> set by
> 
> Default-Release "lenny"
> 

   I have created /etc/apt/prefwrences, and that appears to have solved the
problem for the moment. I now have no packages listed with upgrades
available, and zonewinder has been installed. Next job is to configure
zoneminder.

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