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Re: apt: pin: how to debug?



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.)

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