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

[Wackojacko <wackojacko32@ntlworld.com>]

Florian Sukup wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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).
>
> I have tried a lot of ways, but no success.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Florian.

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.

HTH

Wackojacko