Re: Pinning by architecture?
Am 19.03.2014 00:39, schrieb John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell:
> "With the current version, apt would always try to install the newest
> version of a package which usually comes from unstable or testing -
> this could lead to a messed-up system. With apt-pinning, we can
> define priorities so that a package gets installed from unstable or
> testing only if there's no such package from stable."
>
> show me a control file entry, the description, for one package, ie,
> from /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> Package: gawk
>
> does is show [alpha] or [!i386] ? i don't think so. i think it does
> arch is only when your using buildd to compile packages. not file
> Packages.gz but yes in file Sources.gz
>
...
> so maybe you've just looked in the wrong debian manuals so far and
> it's easier than you think. it's there !
>
May be I should have tried to explain why I'm asking. I'm experimenting
with multiarch in wheezy and jessie. It seems to me, that e.g. for a
cross-compiling environment it might be desirable to install packages
for the target architecture not from the Debian archives but from
another repository and use pinning to set this up.
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