Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
Well, I must admit I'm not an apt expert at all. But if you're pinning a package you're preventing it from being updated with an apt-get upgrade, aren't you? Or at least keeping to a certain repository. So, when you apt-get update you're just updating apt-get's local cache of Releases and so on, and the pin will only take effect when you try to apt-get upgrade.On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:21:00PM +0100, Chris Boot wrote:in the strace file -- there is no line about reading Release files for repositories... so when does it really grants all Release files information???I would guess when you do an 'apt-get update'...?How then it can be used for pining packages? or in other words -- how apt-get uses read during update Release information? is it stored anywhere intermediately?P.S. please CC to me plz plz
So, place your pin, apt-get update, then your pin will work when you use apt-get upgrade or 'apt-get -V install --reinstall --print-uris sip4'.
That is, if I understand the whole process! :-) HTH, Chris -- Chris Boot bootc@bootc.net http://www.bootc.net/