Re: debian postfix and 3rd party repo

[Mihamina Rakotomandimby <mihamina@gulfsat.mg>]

> Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> :
>On Wed,03.Mar.10, 20:03:01, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
>> I have to use the "postfix" package from this repository:
>>   deb http://debian.home-dn.net/lenny postfix-vda/

I changed the repository to my local one (I mirrored the above)
Now it's:

  deb http://mirror.malagasy.com/GS binary/

Why, because before using it for production, I choosed to check it a
bit and recompile/rebuild the package.
Then I put it in my own repository.

I kept the name: postfix, to ease the repackaging.

Also, I have a local mirror of ftp.debian.org:

  deb http://mirror.malagasy.com/debian lenny main

>> But the package name (postfix) is the same.
>> That means if I have official Debian reposotories _and_ that one
>> enabled, what is the expected behaviour of apt if I perform a
>>   "apt-get install postfix" ?
>Try
>apt-cache policy postfix

root@second-camel:~# apt-cache policy postfix
postfix:
  Installed: 2.5.5-1.1
  Candidate: 2.5.5-1.2-vda0
  Version table:
     2.5.5-1.2-vda0 0
     500 http://mirror.malagasy.com binary/ Packages <== my repo
 *** 2.5.5-1.1 0
     500 http://mirror.malagasy.com lenny/main Packages 
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ local mirror of official debian
     100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

>If the version is lower (apt-cache will tell you) then you will indeed 
>need some pinning. You might be able to pin by 'postfix-vda', but if
>you need more guidance please post the output of above mentioned
>apt-cache command.

Above is the output you need to guide me :-)

what to put in /etc/apt/preference so that the priority is given to 
"deb http://mirror.malagasy.com/GS binary/", just for "postfix"?


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