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Re: apt policy and volatile-sloppy



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.

Of course, I know very little of the internals of apt, so I may be way
off base, but this looks like the culprit to me.

Take care,
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