Re: Question on the new offical debian packages and apt

[Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org>]

Brad Sims wrote:
> As I understand it there are now Official Packages for Mplayer... how do I 
> ensure that I keep getting the latest from marillat?
>
> I have the repository in my sources.list, but I am concerned about it 
> pulling the one from Debian Official if the Debian Official Version is 
> newer than marilat's. Or a better question: if the version numbers are
> the same, which is pulled? 
>
> I am well aware that apt will pull the deb with the highest version number; 
> but I am unsure what apt does if the version number on the official servers
> and a third-party repository are identical

Put:

Package: *
Pin: release o=Christian Marillat
Pin-Priority: 999

in /etc/apt/preferences[you may have to create the file].  Its also 
possible that they won't have the same name anyway[Marillat's are 
mplayer-<subarch> and the official ones might just be 'mplayer'].

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