[You wrote to me directly instead of the list. I'm putting it back, untrimmed, because others could help] On Wed,08.Jul.09, 20:20:14, Rob Owens wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 01:24:35PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Tue,07.Jul.09, 21:38:57, Rob Owens wrote: > > > > > > Since "fakerepo" is not a valid release, "somepackage" is never > > > installable. I'm still not sure why my original scheme didn't work. > > > > Sounds kind of hackish. When you have troubles with pinning the output > > of 'apt-cache policy <package>' helps a lot. > > > I agree, it does seem kind of hackish. > > > /etc/apt/preferences: > > Package: libmono0 > Pin: version * > Pin-Priority: -1 > > > apt-cache policy libmono0 > > libmono0: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 1.9.1+dfsg-6 > Package pin: 2.0.1-6 > Version table: > 2.0.1-6 -1 > 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main Packages > 1.9.1+dfsg-6 -1 > 990 http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/main Packages > As you can see here, your pin doesn't work... > apt-get install -s libmono0 > > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libmono0 > 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Inst libmono0 (1.9.1+dfsg-6 Debian:5.0.2/stable) > Conf libmono0 (1.9.1+dfsg-6 Debian:5.0.2/stable) > > (and the same thing happens if I "apt-get install -s f-spot", only a lot > more packages get installed -- including libmono0) > > -Rob ... and apt-get confirms it. Looking through 'man apt_preferences' it seems to me it's the 'Pin: Version *' entry. Try something like this: Package: libmono0 Pin: origin "" Pin-Priority: -1 Regards, Andrei -- Dacă aveți probleme cu afișarea diacriticelor trebuie să vă actualizați fonturile. Vedeți http://wiki.debian.org/L10N/Romanian/Lenny/Notes pentru mai multe detalii.
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