Re: apt preferences in latest Sarge don't work the way they used to

[hugo vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

hugo vanwoerkom wrote:
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=schuldei+group:linux.debian.user+author:vanwoerkom&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&selm=TgUh.T6.43%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=5 

This reference mentions that you ought to specify FQDN but that it works 
without.

That is no longer true.

If preferences has:

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

Then apt-cache policy x-window-system shows:

debian:/# apt-cache policy x-window-system
x-window-system:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 4.3.0-7
  Version Table:
     4.3.0-7 0
        500 file: sarge/main Packages
     4.3.0-0pre1v3 0
        500 /http://www.schuldei.org ./ Packages
     4.1.0-16woody3 0
        500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages

So the 4.3.0-7 version gets installed and 4.3.0-0pre1v3 ignored.

If preferences has:

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

Then apt-cache policy x-window-system shows:

debian:/# apt-cache policy x-window-system
x-window-system:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 4.3.0-0pre1v3
  Version Table:
     4.3.0-7 0
        500 file: sarge/main Packages
     4.3.0-0pre1v3 0
        999 /http://www.schuldei.org ./ Packages
     4.1.0-16woody3 0
        500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages

So 4.3.0-0pre1v3 gets installed.

This used to work without the "www", but no longer.

Hugo