I don't have Internet access from home for my laptop, so I access it from a friend's house. At home, I have a Lenny repo set up using reprepro (I'll call it homeRepo), and things install from there okay. When I have network access, I install packages from the official Debian repositories (here called debRepo), so packages can never be installed from both homeRepo and debRepo at the same time. that's all good. My problem lies in the fact that I have to edit my sources.list and update the package lists each time I change sites, so that I have access to that site's repository. I've checked the documentation, without success, for a way, without having to change config files every time I change sites, to specify "Install package foobar, preferably from debRepo, but if debRepo doesn't work, then install from homeRepo, and only if homeRepo doesn't work, then give standard failure message." I've made some progress in figuring out how to do this, but my method still has a few snags: leave _both_ the homeRepo and debRepo entries uncommented in my sources.list. The snag here comes when I see a DSA, see if I need to upgrade, and if so, update && safe-upgrade -- I get (expected) errors that homeRepo can't be found and every package in homeRepo is marked Untrusted until I update from home. (unexpected, but that's another thread) I am aware of 'aptitude install package=version' and 'package/archive'. Something that just struck me as I was composing this mail: Would it be a more effective solution to my problem (than what I'm currently using) to change homeRepo's archive name from 'lenny' to something else, then when I want to install a package from homeRepo, do 'aptitude install foopackage/somethingelse'? The way I see it, though, it wouldn't settle the update issue. As an aside, the homeRepo is mainly intended for installing packages until I can get to a network connection, at which time they'll be upgraded on my next upgrade run. -- _ Brian Ryans 8B2A 54C4 E275 8CFD 8A7D 5D0B 0AD0 B014 C112 13D0 . ( ) ICQ UIN: 43190205 | Mail/MSN/Jabber: BrianLRyans@gmail.com ..: X ASCII Ribbon Campaign Against HTML mail and v-cards: asciiribbon.org / \ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced
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