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Re: Pin and apt



Le Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 01:32:19PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman a écrit:
> 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.

It's right.

> Pins are used to select between distinct versions. 

Why can I specify a release pin instead a version pin ?
I don't agree.

> 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.

root@tollan:~-> head -1 /etc/apt/sources.list
deb file:/root/deb/ ./

then apt-get update (to be sure)

root@tollan:~-> apt-get install --print-uris icewm
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  icewm-common 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  icewm icewm-common 
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8  not upgraded.
Need to get 499kB of archives. After unpacking 2294kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
'http://debian.mirrors.easynet.fr/pool/main/i/icewm/icewm-common_1.2.0-1_i386.deb' icewm-common_1.2.0-1_i386.deb 238048 4959cbcaa274dd5ae9bb35144923538c
'http://debian.mirrors.easynet.fr/pool/main/i/icewm/icewm_1.2.0-1_i386.deb' icewm_1.2.0-1_i386.deb 260934 73f7800ef2f37da5f0a66819d397cd1e

Identical :-(

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