apt pinning

[Danilo Piazzalunga]

Nathan Sprangers wrote:
> I followed the directions for keeping a mixed system at
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/PinningHowto, however it does not work
> as expected for me.
[...]
> Simply adding APT::Default-Release "warty"; didn't 
> do this for me.  When I run apt-get upgrade it wants to upgrade
> everything.

That's strange. Does it want to upgrade everything even when you run "apt-get
-t warty upgrade"?

> What I does work for me, though, is putting this in 
> /etc/apt/preferences:
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=hoary
> Pin-Priority: 50

That's a good idea -- I think it should be added to the wiki page.

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