Re: apt: pin: how to debug?
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:35:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> My attempts at pinning obviously don't do what I expect (that is, apt-get
> just goes for the highest version and seems to ignore the preferences). Is
> there any way I can tell apt-get to explain why it chooses which version?
deity@lists.debian.org is probably the place to ask about this, but if you're
trying to get a lower version to override a higher one, you'll need to use a
pin priority greater than 1000, as documented in apt_preferences(5).
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- mdz
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