Re: Configuring /etc/apt/preferences

[Andrei Badea <andrei.badea@movzx.net>]

Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> On 2004-04-23 20:39:27 +0200, Andrei Badea wrote:
>
> > I tried to change /etc/apt/preferences to this (one single rule):
> >
> > Package: *
> > Pin: origin ftp.cz.debian.org
> > Pin-Priority: 999
> >
> > in order to increase the priority, just to see what would happen. 
> > Unfortunately nothing, on apt-cache policy I get the same list that I 
> > posted before. All sources have the same priority 990. Maybe the 
> > "origin" syntax is wrong?
>
> You probably need the scheme too (e.g. ftp://ftp.cz.debian.org)
> and possibly more (the full path after "deb" or "seb-src" in
> /etc/apt/sources.list). But I've never tried.

I've tried both the scheme and path, only the scheme and only the full 
path, with and without double quotes. Nothing seems to work.

> I avoid that by not using any target release in apt.conf, as it is
> useless (and possibly harmful[*]) when using preferences.
>
> [*] For instance, this could prevent security updates from being applied.

I run this on my home computer, where I've switched to unstable 
immediately after installing Woody. So I guess there aren't security 
updates for me anyway since unstable is not supported by the security 
team (but please correct me if I'm wrong).

--
Andrei