Re: prioritizing deb locations
On 2004-02-05, Thomas Hood 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.
>
> If you list only Debian sources in /etc/apt/sources.list then you will
> get only Debian packages.
>
Yes, but I *want* to get the updates for the few packages that I want
that originate elsewhere -- I just don't want to accidentally suck in
alternate packages without realizing that that's what I'm doing.
--
monique
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