The Temptation of Unstable

[JoeHill]

Jamon Camisso wrote: 

> JoeHill wrote:
> > Just looking at a post on Debian Users about someone running Squeeze, and I
> > see they've got XFCE 4.6 available to them, among other things.
> > 
> > This is very very tempting. My sources.list is already pointing to
> > Unstable, I just can't bring myself to run the upgrade. I used to use
> > Mandriva, so, you know... ;)
> > 
> > I guess what I'm hoping is that someone will convince me to take the rather
> > risky step of updating from Testing to Unstable on my one home machine.
> > 
> > Especially if someone's running unstable, I would like to hear about the
> > major and minor pitfalls, if any.
> > 
> > Thanks!  
> 
> Check out apt pinning: http://wiki.debian.org/AptPinning

That looks like what I'm looking for, thanks :-)

Now, if I understand the instructions correctly, I should have all the entries
I have now in my sources.list, except they will appear twice, once for testing,
once for unstable?

ie. I should have something like this (I know the line wrap is off due to
netiquette):

#Testing#
deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb-src http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ testing main non-free contrib

deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main

deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main

deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
restricted

deb-src http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
restricted

#Unstable#
deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib

deb http://security.debian.org/ unstable/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ unstable/updates main contrib

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org unstable main

deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org unstable main

deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
restricted

deb-src http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
restricted

Or am I _completely_ getting this wrong? ;)

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