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Re: chroot, sarge and biarch



That was a suggestion which wasn't (yet) reflected on alioth... but if
you check man apt_preferences you will see that you can pin by origin as
URL. so you can ping alioth packages to highest priority... I believe

--Yarik

On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 01:04:19AM +0100, Oliver Zimmermann wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 16:03:30 -0500
> Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com> wrote:

> > don't know if it directly answers your question but I think it
> > might... check man apt_preferences and
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2003/debian-amd64-200311/msg00007.html

> Thanks, I checked that, good hint!

> I startet with something like this in /etc/apt/preferences:

> Package: *
> Pin: release o=Debian-amd64
> Pin-Priority: 1600

> Package: *
> Pin: origin ""
> Pin-Priority: 999

> But the evaluation of this items needs IMHO a valid Release-file in the
> amd64 source, which apt-get seems not to find:

> # apt-get update
> Hit http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org sarge/main Packages
> Ign http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org sarge/main Release
> Get:1 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org sarge/main Packages [2674kB]
> Get:2 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org sarge/main Release [81B]
> Get:3 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org sarge/contrib Packages [59.8kB]
> Get:4 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org sarge/contrib Release [84B]
> Fetched 2734kB in 6s (404kB/s)
> Reading Package Lists...

> Why does the Release file on alioth not exist and therefore is
> "Ign"ored?

> - Oliver
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