Re: Want to set apt pin-priority lower for none debian sites

[Wackojacko <wackojacko32@ntlworld.com>]

Florian Sukup wrote:
> Thank you for your email.
>
>
> > > I want to assign a lower priority to packages which come from other 
> > > sites than debian.org.
> > >
> > > The problem: 
> > > testing is my target release. In my sources.list there the following 
> > > entries:
> > >
> > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main 
> > > deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian stable main non-free contrib
> > > deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian testing main non-free contrib
> > > deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian unstable main non-free contrib
> > > deb http://www.linex.org/sources/linex/debian sarge linex
> > > ...
> > >
> > > # apt-cache policy mozilla-firefox
> > > mozilla-firefox:
> > > Installed: 1.0.6-1.linex1
> > > Candidate: 1.0.6-1.linex1
> > > Version Table:
> > >    1.0.6-5 0
> > >       400 http://ftp.at.debian.org unstable/main Packages
> > > *** 1.0.6-1.linex1 0
> > >       990 http://www.linex.org sarge/linex Packages
> > >       100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> > >    1.0.4-2sarge3 0
> > >       500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
> > >       990 http://ftp.at.debian.org testing/main Packages
> > >    1.0.4-2 0
> > >       400 http://ftp.at.debian.org stable/main Packages
> > >
> > > But this is not what I want. I want to have 1.0.4-2sarge3 0 installed. 
> > > Automatically!
> > >
> > > Does anyone know, if this possible (by changing the apt_preferences, for 
> > > example).
> >
> > man apt_preferences, include
> >
> > APT::Default-Release "testing";
> >
> > in /etc/apt/apt.conf (create one if you don't have one)
> >
> > then include something like
> >
> > Package: *
> >          Pin: release a=unstable
> >          Pin-Priority: 500
> >
> > in /etc/apt/preferences (again may need to create)
> >
> > This should prevent unstable packages being given the same, or higher 
> > priority as testing.
>
>
> I tried that but didn't work. Seems logical to me. The linex packages 
> are also denoted as testing. Therefore, this doesn't work.
>
> I really need to give to all packages of a certain site a lower 
> priority. 
>
> Any idea?
>
> Florian.


I had the same problem with Ubuntu packages trying to upgrade unstable 
packages and put

Package:*
Pin: origin "ubuntu"
Pin-Priority: 100

in my preferences file so they will only install if they are the only 
version of that package available e.g. mplayer-amd64 is not in debain 
proper so it is installed.

AFAIK this will only work if the 'origin' flag is set on the package 
from linex.

HTH

Wackojacko