Re: Temporarily disable a repository

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 16:20:50 +0000, - Tong - wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> Is it possible to temporarily disable a repository?
> If so, how? 
> 
> I'm using ffmpeg from debian-multimedia repository, but I want to use the
> version from official Debian lenny repository instead temporarily. What's
> the easiest way of doing that? 
> 
> thanks
> 
> Ref:
> 
>  $ apt-cache policy ffmpeg
>  ffmpeg:
>    Installed: 3:20070719-0.0
>    Candidate: 3:20070719-0.0
>    Version table:
>   *** 3:20070719-0.0 0
> 	 600 http://debian-multimedia.gnali.org testing/main Packages
> 	 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>       0.cvs20070307-6 0
> 	 600 http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca lenny/main Packages
> 	  50 http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca unstable/main Packages
> 
>  % apt-get -t lenny install ffmpeg
>  Reading package lists... Done
>  Building dependency tree       
>  Reading state information... Done
>  ffmpeg is already the newest version.
>  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1126 not upgraded.

Try

apt-get install ffmpeg/lenny

or

apt-get install ffmpeg=0.cvs20070307-6

If you want to change priorities for an entire archive then you probably
have to use package pinning (see the manpage for apt_preferences).

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