In <[🔎] d22s75dr09nm94jfkohhd3q0nj6hh82l6t@4ax.com>, Jeff Grossman wrote: >I am running Debian Stable on a server. The package in >stable right now is called "5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny3". I called my new >packages "5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny3+custom1". I have the following >settings in my apt.conf file in case I ever need to install anything >from testing or unstable: apt.conf? I think these setting are from /etc/apt/preferences, not /etc/apt/apt.conf or /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ >Package: * >Pin: release a=lenny-backports >Pin-Priority: 800 > >Package: * >Pin: release a=volatile >Pin-Priority: 600 > >Package: * >Pin: release a=stable >Pin-Priority: 500 > >Package: * >Pin: release a=testing >Pin-Priority: 300 > >Package: * >Pin: release a=unstable >Pin-Priority: 200 > >But, now aptitude wants to install the PHP package from testing when I >do a safe-upgrade. What should I have called my custom build PHP >package so it would not want to upgrade it to testing? Installed packages that are not available in a repository have a priority of 100. You could pin (by version) your custom package version to 400 or so. Alternatively would could put your local packages in a local repository and pin that repository to 400 or so. apt-ftparchive can be quite useful for small, local repositories. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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