Re: sources.list directory specification



On Saturday 03 September 2011 10:35:53 Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 03/09/11 08:27, Lisi wrote:

So - you are just doing as I suggested. Being selective (except you were
doing it long before I suggested it, and I was only echoing the
documentation)

"Hidden" in my original post was this:-

Yes - though you might consider reading up on pinning.

;-p

Yes, I saw that - but I in my turn was obviously not making myself clear. ;-)

"Hidden" in my post was the point that I did nothing. Debian did it without
my lifting a finger! (Stars and emphasis added now.)

installed from there. The marvellous ***Debian sets the pinning
appropriately __automatically__:***

/etc/apt/preferences

Package: * Pin: release a=lenny-backports Pin-Priority: 200

Lisi


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