On Ma, 18 iun 13, 18:00:37, Roland Hieber wrote: > Hi, > > I want to pin the libav* packages from deb-multimedia so they get a > lower priority than the libav packages in the default Debian repos. > > My sources.list looks like this: > > $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*list > # deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://debian.tu-bs.de/debian/ wheezy main > contrib non-free > > deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://debian.tu-bs.de/debian/ wheezy main contrib Side note: you don't need to add the architecture to sources.list, apt will automatically use all architectures configured with dpkg. > > My preferences look like this: > > $ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/*.pref > Package: libavdevice53 > Pin: release o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages > Pin-Priority: 250 > > (/etc/apt/preferences is empty and "Unofficial Multimedia Packages" is > what > http://debian-multimedia.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/debian-multimedia/dists/testing/Release > says for the Origin: header) Looks good to me. > But nevertheless, apt still assigns a prio of 500: > > $ apt-cache policy libavdevice53 > libavdevice53: > Installed: 6:9.3-1 > Candidate: 7:0.10.3-dmo1 > Package pin: 7:0.10.3-dmo1 > Version table: > 7:0.10.3-dmo1 250 > 500 > http://debian-multimedia.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/debian-multimedia/ > testing/main amd64 Packages > *** 6:9.3-1 250 > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > 6:0.8.6-1 250 > 500 http://debian.tu-bs.de/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages > > > However, if I change the pinning to Package: *, everything works as > expected (for all packages of course, but I don't need that :P) > > Is this a PEBCAK, or is this a bug in apt? It's certainly strange. Are you sure there's no typo in the file (i.e. you copy-pasted and not copied the contents to the e-mail)? Could you please also attach the output of: apt-cache policy apt-cache policy libavdevice53:amd64 apt-cache policy libavdevice53:i386 Which one is your main architecture (dpkg --print-architecture)? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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