upgrade and synaptic

[Andrew Conkling]

On 2/17/06, Duncan Lithgow <duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 22:06 +0100, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
> > hi all,
if i open synaptic, refresh the list of package available i
> > can press one button and update the entire system. Quite easy but i
> > fail to understand how can it manage multiple repositories,for example
> > security and backport include different versions of the same
> > package...
> It just takes the most recent version, as far as I understand.

Actually, I'm fairly sure you can specify what takes priority by
"pinning" your repositories.  I've never done it, but the wiki seems
to have something to say on the matter:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PinningHowto

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