Re: apt: pin: how to debug?
dan@debian.org (Daniel Jacobowitz) wrote on 25.03.01 in <[🔎] 20010325113755.A18681@nevyn.them.org>:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 05:24:16AM -0600, Taral wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 03:09:30PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 08:26:55PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > > Speaking of pins, does anyone have a pin setup to make apt follow
> > > > testing, but let you override to get stuff from unstable?
> > >
> > > I have /etc/apt/preferences set to:
> > > Package: *
> > > Pin: release a=testing
> > > Pin-Priority: 900
> >
> > More on pins: I can't get origin pins to work. This doesn't work, for
> > example:
> >
> > Package: package
> > Pin: origin http://host/path/to/debian/
> > Pin-Priority: -1
> >
> > Is this not the correct format for a pin? If it's not, then that man
> > page _really_ needs some clarification. (It needs clarification anyway.)
>
> Yep, it sure does.
>
> You're looking for Pin: release o=Debian
> (no 'origin', no URL - look at Release files to see the proper names
> for Origin:).
How do you know?
>From reading the manpage, *I* would expect that he's instead looking for
"Pin: origin host" (i.e., host, not URL), which is entirely different from
"Pin: release o=Debian" (the latter needs a "Release" file, the former
doesn't).
Incidentally, what *is* the right command line option for apt-get to turn
on --force-overwrite? I can do it with apt.conf, but I haven't managed to
find something that works with -o.
MfG Kai
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