Re: Pure64 chroot available

[Eric Sharkey <sharkey@netrics.com>]

> John Goerzen writes:
>  > mkdir amd64_pure_test/{tmp,root,proc}
>  > mount -t proc none amd64_pure_test/proc
>  > LOGNAME=root chroot amd64_pure_test
>  > vi /etc/apt/sources.list -- change the references to
>  >   http://debian/ to http://ftp.debian.org/ or your local mirror
>  >   (and yes, binary-i386 is right; it only gets Arch: all packages from
>  >   there)
>  > apt-get update
>  > apt-get -u dist-upgrade
> 
> I currently have a working system which I am trying to flesh how.
> The problem I see is that when I try:
> 
>   apt-get install xlibs
> 
> it pulls the xlibs-4.3.0-5 package from binary-i386 and not from your
> archive (which has xlibs-4.2.1-16.1).  I aborted the install before it
> could actually install anything.
> 
> Am I missing something?

How did you set your preferences?

I have:

# cat /etc/apt/preferences 
Package: *
Pin: release l=jgoerzen
Pin-Priority: 1500

Eric