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Re: give cdrom source more priority in apt-get [lost the original]



This one time, at band camp, andrej hocevar said:
> Unfortunately no one has responded to this by now, I too was waiting.
> The apt_preferences manpage does mention pinning an origin, but
> until now I couldn't succeed. 

In the Release.gz that comes from each source, you will find the various
fields, and origin will be one of them.  Use one of the fields there -
you'll find origin, archive, label (which is I think what you want to
pin on, in this case.)

You'll find the Release.gz under /var/lib/apt/lists/

HTH,
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