Re: APT Strange Behaviour (Priorities)

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:21:59PM +0200, Marko Randjelovic <marel@sbb.rs> was heard to say:
> main:~# apt-cache policy | grep -i backport
>    1 http://www.backports.org etch-backports/non-free Packages
>      release o=Backports.org archive,a=etch-backports,l=Backports.org archive,c=non-free
>      origin www.backports.org
>    1 http://www.backports.org etch-backports/contrib Packages
>      release o=Backports.org archive,a=etch-backports,l=Backports.org archive,c=contrib
>      origin www.backports.org
>    1 http://www.backports.org etch-backports/main Packages
>      release o=Backports.org archive,a=etch-backports,l=Backports.org archive,c=main
>      origin www.backports.org
> 
> It looks like apt have an idea backports.org has priority of 1 when there is no entry in preferences file. Why?

  From http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/etch-backports/Release:

Origin: Backports.org archive
Label: Backports.org archive
Suite: etch-backports
Codename: etch-backports
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:37:27 UTC
NotAutomatic: yes

  pkgPolicy::InitDefaults(), in apt-pkg/policy.cc, sets NotAutomatic
sources (such as backports and experimental) to priority 1 by default.
You should be able to override that using pins.

  Daniel