tracking a specific deb

Erich Schubert erich@debian.org
Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:13:37 -0700


Hi,

> As I understand it, pinning is designed to control the version of a
> package that apt selects.  I'm indifferent to version; I'm trying
> limit what section I'm pulling from.

Yes, but where a version can be defined as "the current version in
non-free from the debian.org site".

A "predefined pin" is experimental, for example. And with pins, you can
also downgrade a system from unstable to testing, for example, by saying
"install the version from testing even when there is a newer version in
a different repository".

Greetings,
Erich