Re: apt pinning

[Michael Spang <mike@midgard.no-ip.org>]

ocl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to get a certain package (dbmail) pinned to a
> certain version (v2*).
>
> This package is not part of debian distribution --yet, but
> an older version (v1*) does exist for it in the debian
> repositories.
>
> This is the stuff that I added to /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> deb http://debian.nfgd.net/debian woody/
> deb-src http://debian.nfgd.net/debian woody/
>
> deb http://debian.nfgd.net/debian sid/
> deb-src http://debian.nfgd.net/debian sid/
>
> deb http://debian.nfgd.net/debian stable/
> deb-src http://debian.nfgd.net/debian stable/
>
> deb http://debian.nfgd.net/debian unstable/
> deb-src http://debian.nfgd.net/debian unstable/
>
> deb http://debian.nfgd.net/debian experimental/
> deb-src http://debian.nfgd.net/debian experimental/
>
> Please notice the 'slash' at the end. It is necessary
> for this particular repository.
>
> When I add the following lines
>
>   Package: dbmail
>   Pin: release version 2*
>   Pin-Priority: 1500
>
> to the /etc/apt/prefrences file, I would have expected that
> 'apt-get install dbmail-pqsql' (i.e PostgreSQL version of
> DbMail) would install v2.x, but it does not, it keeps getting
> v1.x
>
> I did try it with 'apt-get --reinstall install dbmail-pqsql'
> but the result is the same. Same result with Synaptic too.
>
> Could someone help, please.
>
> Cheers,
> Ray

Perhaps 'release' should be removed since you're not specifying a release?

I'm not sure on how to pin by version, but a pin by release looks 
something like this:

Package: apt
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority:1000