[Linux-disciples] Pulling mutt from Debian unstable, but nothing else

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Seems like that should work. What if you use stable and unstable instead 
of jaunty and sid? What if you put the pin-priority of unstable below 
500? Your problem might be related to mixing distributions, which is 
handled a little differently from mixing releases. Isn't there an Ubuntu 
unstable with the more recent mutt?

Or, why not just specify mutt in preferences and not other packages?

Stephen R Laniel wrote, on 5/7/2009 6:18 PM:
> I know this is a juvenile question, so
> my apologies, but: I want to install
> mutt from Debian sid, but no other
> packages from sid. (Mutt in the latest
> Ubuntu is irritatingly broken in the way
> it handles certificates. I can find a
> web discussion of this, if people are
> interested.)
>
> So how would I do that? Obviously I'd
> add a Debian repo to my
> /etc/apt/sources.list. Then how do I
> tell Ubuntu that *only* mutt is to come
> from Debian? I assume pinning is
> involved. So my /etc/apt/preferences
> might look like
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=jaunty
> Pin-Priority: 700
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=sid
> Pin-Priority: 650
>
> (cribbed and modified from
> http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html
> )
>
> Then I added a 'sid' line to
> sources.list:
>
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free
>
> But when I ran
>
> sudo apt-get update&&  sudo apt-get upgrade
>
> it told me I had a number of packages to
> upgrade. That's not the behavior I
> expected. I expected that, if I didn't
> specify a repo -- via the '-t' argument
> to apt-get -- then it would assume I
> wanted to install out of Jaunty. It
> doesn't seem to have done that.
>
> Can any pinning masters explain things
> for me?
>