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Re: Removing packages from unofficial repositories



On 01/03/2014 07:41 AM, Виталий Филиппов wrote:
> AFAIK the apt_preferences method is rather simple:
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release o=Debian
> Pin-Priority: 1001
> 
> With that setting 'apt-get dist-upgrade' downgrades DMO packages to
> official ones. At least it did in my case.
> 
> For me, finding out the correct preference setting was the hardest part
> here :)

Yes, but it's an unsafe operation, since downgrades are still not
supported, and also does not discriminate between DMO packages and
non-DMO packages, so this could break unrelated packages.

Ben


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