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Re: apt-get: why massive upgrade despite pinning everything to stable?

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On 20/11/15 15:07, Kynn Jones wrote:
> Also, I set the contents of my `/etc/apt/preferences` file to this
> (the file was empty before):
>
>      Package: *
>        Pin: release a=stable

Looking at the Debian wiki's page on APT preferences[1] and comparing to 
your file, I notice that you haven't specified a Pin-Priority for this pin.

> P.S. FWIW, ultimately, what I want to perform a very controlled,
> tightly-targeted upgrade of my R-related packages (i.e. `r-base` and
> friends) to `stretch`/`testing`.  IOW, I want to keep the non-`jessie`
> packages installed in my system to the absolute minimum that is
> compatible with upgrading R to `stretch`/`testing`.

Just so you know, this is a discouraged[2] (and completely unsupported) 
configuration.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Don.27t_make_a_FrankenDebian

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apt-get: why massive upgrade despite pinning everything to stable? Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com> - 2015-11-20 16:10 +0100
  Re: apt-get: why massive upgrade despite pinning everything to stable? Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> - 2015-11-20 17:30 +0100
    Re: apt-get: why massive upgrade despite pinning everything to  stable? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-11-20 21:00 +0100
    Re: apt-get: why massive upgrade despite pinning everything to stable? Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com> - 2015-11-22 23:10 +0100
  Re: apt-get: why massive upgrade despite pinning everything to  stable? Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2015-11-20 17:30 +0100

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