Pinning and backports

[Shot - Piotr Szotkowski]

Hello.

Magnus Therning:

> Is there some easy way of achieving the following in APT?
> 
>  - Have backports in source.list
>  - Keep the system mainly on Hoary (i.e. I don't want 'apt-get upgrade'
>    to pull in all the backports packages)
>  - Still get all the security updates for Hoary

I have a similar setup:
Hoary + official security + official updates by default
official backports + unofficial backports and extras + Breezy as options

If you read `man apt_preferences` the following should be clear. :o)

My /etc/apt/sources.list:



deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary-security main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/ hoary-backports main universe multiverse restricted
deb http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/ hoary-extras main universe multiverse restricted

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy main restricted universe multiverse



My /etc/apt/preferences:



Package: *
Pin: origin ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net
Pin-Priority: 499

Package: *
Pin: release hoary-backports
Pin-Priority: 499

Package: *
Pin: release breezy
Pin-Priority: 1



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