Re: apt and preferences and Ralf's woody packages

[Paul Cupis <paul@cupis.co.uk>]

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On Monday 13 Jan 2003 23:30, Marcus C. Gottwald wrote:
> Paul Cupis wrote (Mon 2003-Jan-13 23:02:13 +0000):
> > Hmmm, firstly, I don't you should use 990 as the 'stable' priority - 990
> > is also used as the manual priority set with the -t option to apt-get.
>
> What is your suggestion instead? I thought that if I give e.g.
> "-t foo", packages from "Debian stable" should be preferred if
> they have a higher version number.

Personally, I use 900 in this case - that way I can use "-t unstable" (or 
whatever) to override the default choice of stable/testing/whatever.

e.g.

Package: *
Pin: release stable
Pin-priority: 900

Package: *
Pin: release testing
Pin-priority: 50

Package: *
Pin: release unstable
Pin-priority: 30

With this method, packages from 'stable' are the default. Packages from 
testing/unstable are only installed is the package I want to install does not 
exist in stable at all. If I want to use a package version from testing, I 
can override it's priority to 990 (beating the 900 of stable) with:

  apt-get install foo -t testing

I also findit convenient to use apt-show-versions(1) to keep track of updates 
to files from different distributions. It is perhaps not so useful at the 
moment on a mixed Woody/Sarge system (due to glic differences), but immensely 
useful on mixed testing/unstable systems.

Regards,

Paul Cupis
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paul@cupis.co.uk

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