Re: Possibility of packaging JDK 1.3?

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:49:01PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:

> With apt 0.5, you can be fairly detailed about how you trust sources
> (as someone said in another message) but only as long as you can rely
> on their Release file being correct

You shouldn't have to rely on the Release file at all; you can select packages
based on origin host.  From apt_preferences(5):

       The  final  selection  method is by origin. This is simply
       the site name of the originating package files. The  empty
       string is used for file URIs.

As far as I can tell, this is different from matching the release origin, which
comes from the Release file.  But I confess I haven't tried any of this.

-- 
 - mdz