Dear Apt Team, I'm sorry to bother but I couldn't find answer to my question anywhere, so I've decided to ask you. To make story short: I apt-src-ed some of the packages with patches I need, then I install them into local repository which resides as another component in debian mirror: deb file:/net/debmirror/share/debmirror/debian/ sid main contrib non-free rumba I placed Release file into debian/dists/unstable/rumba/binary-i386 which contains: Components: rumba Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 15:50:43 UTC Description: Packages packaged/compiled at RUMBA Labs Label: rumbarep Origin: rumba Suite: unstable now when I try to pin package in /etc/apt/preferences like Package: sip4 Pin: release l=rumbarep Pin-Priority: 1001 it doesn't do any good: root@ravana[2] /etc/cfengine/files>strace -fF -o /tmp/11 apt-get -V install --reinstall --print-uris sip4 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 134 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/154kB of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 'file:/net/debmirror/share/debmirror/debian/pool/main/s/sip4-qt3/sip4_4.2.1-1_i386.deb' sip4_4.2.1-1_i386.deb 153986 9a03f43005cd3c73b472c1803f962e75 in the strace file -- there is no line about reading Release files for repositories... so when does it really grants all Release files information??? Thank you in advance -- .-. =------------------------------ /v\ ----------------------------= Keep in touch // \\ (yoh@|www.)onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko /( )\ ICQ#: 60653192 Linux User ^^-^^ [175555]
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