[Fwd: Re: An Aptitude and Repository Question]
Sorry for my mistake, I sent this email to Andrei's private email
instead of the list, so I am re-posting it to the email list.
Eren
From: Debian TR <debiantr.wordpress@gmail.com>
Reply-to: debiantr.wordpress@gmail.com
To: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: An Aptitude and Repository Question
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:28:47 +0100
Sure.
I just read the man (apt_preferences) page :)
Then, added the line below to /apt/preferences
Package: tor
Pin: origin "deb.torproject.org"
Pin-Priority: 900
I gave 900 since the testing repo, with the highest pin number, is also
900, so aptitude automatically chooses the highest version. However,
when I do "apt-get cache policy tor", it shows that torproject.org is
still 500. Because aptitude installed the right version, it did not
bother me much.
There was also another example, I tried, like:
Package: tor
Pin: version 0.2.1.27*
Pin-Priority: 1001
I don't know why, but this failed. It still tried to install v0.2.1.26
from testing repo.
One can say that there isn't any difference between v0.2.1.26 and
v0.2.1.27, be right. Yet, it was an educational thing for me :)
Regards,
Eren
On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 15:37 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Lu, 13 dec 10, 14:22:34, Debian TR wrote:
> >
> > Since there wasn't any reply so far, I didn't mark the mail as
"solved".
> > But, thanks anyway. I found a way to fix it.
>
> Your fix might be useful for others if it's available in the
archives ;)
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: An Aptitude and Repository Question
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:18:38 +0200
On Ma, 07 dec 10, 17:14:24, Debian TR wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I added tor project's and wine's repositories to my sources.list.
>
> However, when I aptitude update and install tor/wine (even thuogh their
> versions are higher), aptitude tries to install them from debian
> repositories.
>
> I am using a squeeze/sid mixed system with apt pinning, can the values
> given in "preferences" be the problem, what can i do?
Please post the full output of
apt-cache policy
apt-cache policy tor
apt-cache policy wine
Regards,
Andrei
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