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Re: how to give priority for site with apt



On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:15:42PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote:
> hi,
> I am looking for possibility to make priority for repository.
> In fact I have a local repository, when I want to install a package I
> want apt to check first in the local to install it from there if it
> exists.
> for example
> here is my sources.list:
> deb file:/opt/ R4.1_2/
> deb file:/opt/R4.1_1  etch main contrib
> deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free
> 
> If a software (say lyx-1.5.1), exists  in /opt/R4.1_2/ I want to
> install it from here and not from ftp.fr.debian.org/debian.  where the
> version is the same of course.
> 
> I haven't found info about priority in the apt doc????

Theoretically it should work like that. Please post the output of 
'apt-cache policy lyx' (make sure it's a package you have in both 
repos).

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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