Re: apt pinning question
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 03:28:19PM +1100, Gordon Wrigley wrote:
> I wasn't sure what venue was best to ask this in, so if this is the
> wrong place please direct me to the correct place.
>
> I'm using APT pinning to pull packages from both Ubuntu Karmic(stable)
> and Ubuntu Lucid(testing) but I'm having problems getting APT to
> produce the behavior I want.
>
> What I want it to do is generally get packages from Karmic(stable).
> Except when I explicitly specify that I want something from
> Lucid(testing), at which point I want it to meet as much of the
> dependencies as it can from Karmic(stable) but where the
> Karmic(stable) packages aren't new enough it should get them from
> Lucid(testing).
>
> I've tried several different configurations but none of them seem to
> work. Currently I have Lucid(testing) pinned at 400 with
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release lucid
> Pin-Priority: 400
>
Are you sure that this applies to *all* lucid sections, including
lucid-updates and lucid-security? I recall reading some blogs that indicated that Ubuntu's
pinning and default release settings don't work exactly like Debian's.
-Rob
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