Re: Packages temporarily disappearing from Testing/Lenny
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:44:46PM -0700, David Fox wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:34 PM, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
> > have you compared the options used in /etc/apt/apt.conf* with the
> > possible ones in /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz ?
>
> I haven't yet looked there until now. I replaced apt.conf contents with the
> following, should be OK but I'll retry it this weekend when I do a
> regular dist-upgrade session.
>
> APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
> # Acquire::http::Proxy "false";
>
> Proxy::http.us.debian.org "DIRECT";
>
> (Oops I have to put the Acquire:: in front of that. Fixed. :)
>
> Now it looks like:
>
> Acquire::http::Proxy::http.us.debian.org "DIRECT";
>
> Still not sure if that is the direct syntax as the configuration has
> the apt heirarchy setup differently than that in apt.conf.
>
> APT::Default-Release "testing";
>
> APT::Cache-Limit 152582912;
do not forget /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/
I prefer to use explicit pinnings in /etc/apt/preferences and _avoid_ using
APT::Default-Release (but it is OK if you do not need more complex pinnings)
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