which receives a higher priority than other distributions do by default.
The target release can be set on the <command>apt-get</command> command
line or in the APT configuration file <filename>/etc/apt/apt.conf</filename>.
+Note that this has precedence over any general priority you set in the
+<filename>/etc/apt/preferences</filename> file described later, but not
+over specifically pinned packages.
For example,
<programlisting>
<programlisting>
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
-Pin-Priority: 500
+Pin-Priority: 50
</programlisting>
<simpara>The following record assigns a high priority to all package versions