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Re: More apt-preferences

Andrew Schulman wrote:

So I now have as only entry in my /etc/apt/preferences:

Package: *
Pin: origin schuldei.org
Pin-Priority: 999

Rationale: the man-page says about origin "fully qualified domain" and
"debian.org" is really "www.debian.org" so I did the same for
schuldei.org which is really "www.schuldei.org".

In any case: I ran apt-get update on the sources list and I would


expect


that "apt-cache policy x-window-system" would show something of the
preferences. It does not. It shows:

x-window-system:
  Installed: 4.3.0-0pre1v3
  Candidate: 4.3.0-0pre1v3
  Version Table:
 *** 4.3.0-0pre1v3 0
        500 http://www.schuldei.org ./ Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4.2.1-12.1 0
        500 http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de testing/main Packages

Shouln't I see something of what I put in the preferences? Or not?



Okay, I looked back at this.  Sure enough, the "origin" Pin does seem to
want the FQDN, not just the suffix.  Or at least, that's the way the
output of apt-cache policy makes it look... although I think the Pin
still works.  Oh well, add it to the list of APT mysteries.  Try it out
and see if it works for you.
But I still wonder: when does the preference (or does it?) show up in the policy? 

H.





(Tip: I use apt-cache policy and apt-cache search so often, I gave them
shell aliases:

alias acp='apt-cache policy'
alias acs='apt-cache search'

Also

alias acg='apt-cache showpkg'
alias acw='apt-cache show'

are useful.)
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