Stephen Gran said: > This one time, at band camp, Andrew Shugg said: So not! > > Can anyone suggest why my apt has got volatile-sloppy with a weighting > > of 1 rather than the default of 500? > > I have an idea it the Release file for volatile-sloppy. The diff with > volatile's Release shows: > @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ > -Archive: sarge-sloppy > +Archive: sarge > Component: volatile/main > Origin: volatile.debian.net > Label: debian-volatile > -NotAutomatic: yes > Architecture: powerpc > > The NotAutomatic: line in volatile-sloppy makes me immediately suspect > that this tells apt to treat this archive with a very low priority > unless told otherwise. Hence the need for manual apt/preferences > tweaking to install things from volatile-sloppy. Sounds reasonable to me. Is anyone else using volatile-sloppy? I'm asking because, as far as I've been able to determine, there's no "how to use volatile-sloppy" information either in this list's archives or on d.o/devel/volatile ... Andrew. -- Andrew Shugg <andrew@neep.com.au> http://www.neep.com.au/ "Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself." "Is there? Well I'd like to meet him. I could do with a good laugh."
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