Re: prioritizing deb locations
On 2004-02-05, Philipp Weis penned:
> On 04 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman <spam@bounceswoosh.org> wrote:
>> Is there any way to tell my system that I only want certain packages to
>> come from this source? I guess my fear is that someone will put a
>> bleeding-edge version of a package into the repository I'm using for
>> other reasons, and now suddenly I'm pulling this non-official package
>> into my system, rather than the one from the official debian repository.
>
> You should have a look at "man apt_preferences". The pinning system is not
> the most intuitive, but works quite well. Something like the following
> should prevent any packages from origin y except for the package x to be
> installed.
>
> Package: x
> Pin: origin y
> Pin-Priority: 999
>
> Package: *
> Pin: origin y
> Pin-Priority: -1
>
Oops. I'd only seen pinning in terms of distributions, so I didn't
bother to RTFM. Thank you for the answer!
--
monique
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