Re: Bug#27618: apt: apt-get does not honor orders of URI in sources.list
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
> man-page of apt-get & sources.list says this:
>
> It is important to list sources in order of preference,
> with the most preferred source listed first. Typically
>
> And in my point of view it doesn't work this way - as it is always
> sorts the the packages and build its own sorted list -
You are miss-reading the part you quoted. It refers to a choice between two
sources that have the SAME files. Since experimental will by defininition
always have newer files it will be used.
It is working as it was designed and these feature will not change. Some new
support for handling the generic case of selecting from multiple version
choices may appear at a later date.
There are other problems that prohib the use of experimental with APT, I do
-NOT- recommend that anyone do it.
Jason
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