rev 11632 - www/v2/pages

Modestas Vainius modax-guest at alioth.debian.org
Fri Jul 18 07:33:11 UTC 2008


Author: modax-guest
Date: 2008-07-18 07:33:04 +0000 (Fri, 18 Jul 2008)
New Revision: 11632

Modified:
   www/v2/pages/experimental
Log:
Document APT pinning

Modified: www/v2/pages/experimental
===================================================================
--- www/v2/pages/experimental	2008-07-18 00:36:33 UTC (rev 11631)
+++ www/v2/pages/experimental	2008-07-18 07:33:04 UTC (rev 11632)
@@ -118,6 +118,18 @@
             <td><i>Software development tools</i></td>
         </tr>
      </table>
+     
+     <p style="margin-bottom:0.1em;">Once you have installed all KDE 4 packages you want experimental, you would probably like
+     to keep them up-to-date to the latest releases in experimental. It is easy to do that with the help of APT pinning. Just
+     add</p>
+     <p style="white-space: pre">
+     Package: *
+     Pin: release a=experimental
+     Pin-Priority: 101
+     </p>
+     <p style="margin-bottom:0.1em;"> to your /etc/apt/preferences file (create one if it does not exist) and simple
+     <span style="font-weight:bold">aptitude (or apt-get) dist-upgrade</span> will always automatically  upgrade
+     packages you have installed from experimental to the latest versions in the experimental repository.</p>
 
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