Re: Any way to make apt ignore dpkg status file?

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Tim Woodall wrote: 
> Hi
> 
> $ APT_CONFIG=../apt/apt.conf.buster.amd64 apt-cache policy dpkg
> dpkg:
>   Installed: 1.20.10
>   Candidate: 1.20.10
>   Version table:
>  *** 1.20.10 100
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      1.19.8 500
>         500 http://aptmirror17.home.woodall.me.uk/local buster/essential amd64 Packages
> 
> Is there any way to make this not see the installed version other than
> by using -o RootDir?


/etc/apt/preferences.d/pin-dpkg:
---
Package: dpkg
Pin: version 1.19.8
Pin-Priority: 1001
---

This will eventually bite you when you inevitably forget about
it.

-dsr-