Re: "holding" installed amd64 packages
I've tried and it seems to do want I wanted:-) created
/etc/apt/preferences
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing-amd64
Pin-Priority: 1600
Package: *
Pin: origin ""
Pin-Priority: 999
Package: *
Pin: release unstable
Pin-Priority: 50
and Release in amd64 repository
Archive: testing-amd64
Component: main
Origin: Debian
Label: Debian
Architecture: amd64
so what do you think?
--Yarik
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:12:14PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I started to play with freshly installed amd64 and one annoying problem
> occurred: how to "hold" packages installed for amd64 architecture when
> new versions are available for i386 in other apt sources. Sure I can
> just put them on hold but that is not nice cause I wouldn't be able to
> update/upgrade them later when somebody packages another version of
> already installed package. May be you already decided this problem for
> yourselves, then please share.
>
> As for me - I glanced over man apt_preferences which seems to be a
> perfect way for me to solve this problem - just assign priority > 1000
> to installed amd64 packages. We can select packages now by different
> fields of Release file (which seems to be absent in every amd64 apt
> source I saw so far) and it would be just perfect if we could do that by
> Architecture field. but as it comes from man page apt doesn't support
> architecture field in such cases because until now it wasn't necessary.
> We might overcome that by using any other field to discriminate our
> packages but that wouldn't be a neat solution. Another way seems to be
> to specify origin where package comes from but that would be specific
> for every user so not nice as well
>
> So what I'm suggesting and asking your advice
> 1. Should I post to a wish list of maintainers of apt package to
> provide possibility to give priorities based on architecture?
>
> 2. Shouldn't we decide on some centralized resource for debian amd64
> binary packages. I've heard that there was an attempt to do that on
> Alioth but it seems that there are some problems with that.
>
> 3. Decide on which field in Release it is better to adjust? For instance
> we can easily use Archive field as testing-amd64, or use Label as
> Debian-amd64.
>
>
> Ideas?
>
>
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