Re: apt policy and volatile-sloppy

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> writes:

> This one time, at band camp, Andrew Shugg said:
>> 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.

The 'NotAutomatic: yes' line is normaly used in experimental and
indeel causes the pin lowering.

MfG
        Goswin