Re: how to build Xorg?

[Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@debian.org>]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 11:37:59AM +0100, pasca@physics.leidenuniv.nl wrote:
> deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ sarge-backports main
> to /etc/apt/sources.list
> 
> I added
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=sarge-backports
> Pin-Priority: 200
> 
> Package: xorg-x11
> Pin: release a=sarge-backports
> Pin-Priority: 999
> 
> to /etc/apt/preferences
> 
> then I ran apt-get update, and by apt-cache search xorg-x11 I see
> nothing! What do I miss?

apt-cache search looks for binary packages. xorg-x11 is only a source
package.

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