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
This provides a place for comments.</para>
<para>The <literal>Pin-Priority:</literal> line in each APT preferences record is
-optional. If omitted, APT assigs a priority of 1 less than the last value
+optional. If omitted, APT assigns a priority of 1 less than the last value
specified on a line beginning with <literal>Pin-Priority: release ...</literal>.</para>
</refsect2>
</refsect1>