Bug#454080: /usr/bin/apt-get: It seems single package pinning works to some extent
Package: apt
Followup-For: Bug #454080
It seems package pinning works to some extent but the syntax of the
version field is somewhat peculiar. It seems that an asterisk is ignored
if it is preceded by a number so you can pin to 3.* or 3.0.* but not
3.0*
Also the success of pinning depends on the order of the pins. I had to
move the mplayer pin before the other unstable pins for it to take
effect.
This feature is really poorly documented which may lead to unsuccesfull
pinning but I beleive it is working.
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "amd64";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Install-Recommends "1";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::Acquire "";
APT::Acquire::Translation "environment";
APT::Update "";
APT::Update::Post-Invoke "";
APT::Update::Post-Invoke:: "[ ! -x /usr/lib/ia32-libs-tools/update-arch-all.list ] || /usr/lib/ia32-libs-tools/update-arch-all.list";
APT::Authentication "";
APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
APT::Cache-Limit "67108864";
APT::Default-Release "lenny";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
Dir::Log "var/log/apt";
Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Post-Invoke "";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/bin/debsums ]; then /usr/bin/debsums --generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/archives; fi";
"APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists=1";
-- /etc/apt/preferences --
Package: mplayer mplayer-nogui
Pin: release a=unstable-i386, o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages
Pin-Priority: 997
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable, o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages
Pin-Priority: 300
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 300
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 900
Package: openoffice.org openoffice.org-1.9.125 openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-base-core openoffice.org-bin openoffice.org-bundled openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-crashrep openoffice.org-debian-files openoffice.org-debian-menus openoffice.org-dev openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-emailmerge openoffice.org-evolution openoffice.org-filter-binfilter openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev openoffice.org-filter-so52 openoffice.org-gcj openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-gtk openoffice.org-help-2.0.0 openoffice.org-help-2.0.1 openoffice.org-help-2.0.2 openoffice.org-help-2.0.3 openoffice.org-help-2.4 openoffice.org-help-de openoffice.org-help-el openoffice.org-help-en openoffice.org-help-es openoffice.org-help-fr openoffice.org-help-it openoffice.org-help-ja openoffice.org-help-ko openoffice.org-help-pt-br openoffice.org-help-sv openoffice.org-help-tr openoffice.org-help-zh-cn openoffice.org-help-zh-tw openoffice.org-hunspell openoffice.org
-hyphenation openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-java openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-kde openoffice.org-l10n-1.9.108 openoffice.org-l10n-1.9.114 openoffice.org-l10n-1.9.121 openoffice.org-l10n-2.4 openoffice.org-l10n-en openoffice.org-l10n-en-us openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-mimelnk openoffice.org-officebean openoffice.org-report-builder openoffice.org-report-builder-bin openoffice.org-style-andromeda openoffice.org-style-crystal openoffice.org-style-default openoffice.org-style-galaxy openoffice.org-style-hicontrast openoffice.org-style-industrial openoffice.org-style-tango openoffice.org-thesaurus openoffice.org-unbundled openoffice.org-updatedicts openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org-writer2latex
Pin: version 1:3.1.0-*
Pin-Priority: 991
Package: libghc6-xmonad-contrib-dev libghc6-xmonad-contrib-doc libghc6-xmonad-contrib-prof libghc6-xmonad-dev libghc6-xmonad-doc libghc6-xmonad-prof xmonad
Pin: version 0.8*
Pin-Priority: 990
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable-i386
Pin-Priority: 270
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing-i386
Pin-Priority: 280
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable-i386
Pin-Priority: 290
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
# deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sid main
deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sid main
deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool xserver-xorg-video-intel
#deb http://www.virtualbox.org/debian etch non-free
#deb http://ftp.uni-kl.de/debian-multimedia/ unstable main
#deb-src http://ftp.uni-kl.de/debian-multimedia/ unstable main
#deb http://ftp.uni-kl.de/debian-multimedia/ testing main
#deb-src http://ftp.uni-kl.de/debian-multimedia/ testing main
deb http://ucho.ignum.cz/debian-multimedia/ lenny main
deb-src http://ucho.ignum.cz/debian-multimedia/ lenny main
deb [arch=i386] http://ucho.ignum.cz/debian-multimedia/ unstable main
deb-src http://ucho.ignum.cz/debian-multimedia/ unstable main
deb [arch=i386] http://ucho.ignum.cz/debian-multimedia/ testing main
deb-src http://ucho.ignum.cz/debian-multimedia/ testing main
deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt lenny main
#deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt sid main
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2009.01.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.9-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
ii aptitude 0.4.11.11-1+b1 terminal-based package manager
ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.25 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
pn python-apt <none> (no description available)
-- debconf-show failed
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