apt pinning

[Nathan Sprangers]

Danilo Piazzalunga wrote:

>Nathan Sprangers wrote:
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>>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.
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>>Simply adding APT::Default-Release "warty"; didn't 
>>do this for me.  When I run apt-get upgrade it wants to upgrade
>>everything.
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>That's strange. Does it want to upgrade everything even when you run "apt-get
>-t warty upgrade"?
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I'm sorry, I must have misread the wiki.  I didn't realize apt-get -t 
warty upgrade would do what I want.  Nonetheless, I want the 
functionality of apt-get -t warty upgrade when I do apt-get upgrade 
which apparently requires the /etc/apt/preferences settings.  Thanks for 
the clarification.

~Nathan