Re: Configuring /etc/apt/preferences (mystery solved)

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

Andrei Badea wrote:

> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>
> > On 2004-04-22 23:49:49 +0200, Andrei Badea wrote:
> >
> > > Having a slow Internet connection, I want to set /etc/apt/preferences 
> > > so that packages from the CDs have a greater priority that those on 
> > > the network. So I put in preferences:
> > >
> > > Package: *
> > > Pin: origin ftp.cz.debian.org
> > > Pin-Priority: 500
> > >
> > > IMHO this should set a priority of 500 for all packages from the ftp 
> > > mirror.
> >
> >
> >
> > If I've understood correctly, this sets a priority of *at least* 500
> > for all packages from the ftp mirror. But you may have other rules
> > setting a higher priority.
>
>
> 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?

I finally managed to set a greater priority for the CDs. After deleting 
the default release line from apt.conf

APT::Default-Release "unstable";

and using this single rule in preferences:

Package: *
Pin: origin Debian GNU/Linux 20040218 _Sid_ - fsn.hu unofficial i386 
Binary-1 (20040218)
Pin-Priority: 999

the first CD gets a priority of 999 and the others and the ftp source 
get the default 500 .

To be complete, this is the relevant line (for the first sid CD) from my 
sources.list:

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 20040218 _Sid_ - fsn.hu unofficial i386 
Binary-1 (20040218)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main 
non-US/non-free non-free

Hope this helps someone.

--
Andrei