Re: Pin and apt

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 05:11:00PM +0200, Julien Danjou wrote:

> oot@tollan:~-> apt-cache policy icewm icewm-common
> icewm:
>   Installed: (none)
>   Candidate: 1.2.0-1
>   Version Table:
>      1.2.0-1 0
>         500 http://debian.mirrors.easynet.fr sid/main Packages
>         999 file: ./ Packages
> icewm-common:
>   Installed: (none)
>   Candidate: 1.2.0-1
>   Version Table:
>      1.2.0-1 0
>         500 http://debian.mirrors.easynet.fr sid/main Packages
>         999 file: ./ Packages

It looks like you are providing the same package versions from both sources.
Pins are used to select between distinct versions.  For packages with the
same version number (and thus should be identical), I believe apt will
select the one which comes from the source which is listed first in
sources.list.

If all you want is to prefer a local package repository (containing
identical packages!) over a remote repository, just list it first.
If you want to use different packages in your local repository, give them
different version numbers.

-- 
 - mdz