RESOLVED Re: Pinning, Local Repositories
> [My problem was being unable to set up a local repository with pinning]
As far as I'm concerned, this was a trememndous feat of collaborating to
save a poor sap some serious chunks of time.
Exactly both of these things mentioned below were the problem. Even with
this advice, it still took me quite a while to get everything right. You
better believe that when I saw that "The following packages will be
DOWNGRADED" message, I was spinning in my chair.
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:25:52PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> The problem is that you are setting up a trivial repository. Pinning
> does *not* work with trivial repositories. Check out my HOWTO on
> automatic repositories [0]. Though you may want to also make use of a
> more automated tool, like dak or debarchiver. My HOWTO is target at
> smaller repositories that change infrequently enough to be handled
> manually. If your repository will be changing more regularly, you will
> want a tool to do more of the work for you.
>
> -Roberto
>
> [0] http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto/?page=debrepository
and
> You need to set a priority > 1000 to force a downgrade. Pinning
> priorities are a bit strange; different numbers mean different things.
> Read 'man apt_preferences' for all the gory details.
>
> --
> Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> - http://www.uhoreg.ca
Thanks!
-rjk
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