From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: dkg@fifthhorseman.net Received: from krantz.zx2c4.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by krantz.zx2c4.com (ZX2C4 Mail Server) with ESMTP id 7d687f16 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 23:28:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from che.mayfirst.org (che.mayfirst.org [162.247.75.118]) by krantz.zx2c4.com (ZX2C4 Mail Server) with ESMTP id f5412ac7 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 23:28:40 +0000 (UTC) From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor To: Baptiste Jonglez , "Jason A. Donenfeld" Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Debian In-Reply-To: <20170708141402.GA13268@tuxmachine.polynome.dn42> References: <20170513070534.GA22218@tuxmachine.polynome.dn42> <20170708141402.GA13268@tuxmachine.polynome.dn42> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 19:36:02 -0400 Message-ID: <87mv8ay2al.fsf@fifthhorseman.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: WireGuard mailing list List-Id: Development discussion of WireGuard List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Sat 2017-07-08 16:14:02 +0200, Baptiste Jonglez wrote: > I think there is a small mistake in the installation instruction for > Debian, sorry about that: the "Pin-Priority" should be set to 150 instead > of 200. > > Long explanation: on jessie, the jessie-backports repository also has a > priority of 200. After enabling unstable with the same priority, APT will > propose to upgrade all packages from jessie-backports to unstable, which > is probably not wanted nor expected. > > Daniel, does that all make sense? Yep, that sounds reasonable to me. fwiw, apt_preferences(5) indicates what the different cutoffs for priorities are, and explains why jessie-backports defaults to something in the 200 range ("NotAutomatic: yes" and "ButAutomaticUpgrades: yes"), and 150 should still have the same properties (it's above 100, but below 500). --dkg