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Bug#405279: marked as done (apt: can't get preferences to work correctly)

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: apt
Version: 0.6.46.4

I'm running a testing distribution.  I've got
www.debian-multimedia.org in my sources.list, but I want the Debian
version of mplayer to be used in preference to the debian-multimedia
version.

In my sources.list I have:

deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main
[...]


In my /etc/apt/apt.conf I have the single line:

APT::Default-Release "testing";

and there's nothing relevant in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ .

In my /etc/apt/preferences I have:

Package: *
Pin: origin "www.debian-multimedia.org"
Pin-Priority: 50

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 60

But it doesn't work: it always tries to download the
www.debian-multimedia.org version (which has a higher version number
than the debian.org one).

The output of apt-cache policy includes:

 990 http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/main Packages
     release o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,a=testing,l=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,c=main
     origin www.debian-multimedia.org


What am I doing wrong?  Or is it a bug in APT?

Thanks,

   Julian

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 10:06:48AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.46.4
> 
> I'm running a testing distribution.  I've got
> www.debian-multimedia.org in my sources.list, but I want the Debian
> version of mplayer to be used in preference to the debian-multimedia
> version.
> 
> In my sources.list I have:
> 
> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main
> [...]
> 
> 
> In my /etc/apt/apt.conf I have the single line:
> 
> APT::Default-Release "testing";
> 
> and there's nothing relevant in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ .
> 
> In my /etc/apt/preferences I have:
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: origin "www.debian-multimedia.org"
> Pin-Priority: 50
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=unstable
> Pin-Priority: 60
> 
> But it doesn't work: it always tries to download the
> www.debian-multimedia.org version (which has a higher version number
> than the debian.org one).
> 
> The output of apt-cache policy includes:
> 
>  990 http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/main Packages
>      release o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,a=testing,l=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,c=main
>      origin www.debian-multimedia.org
> 
> 
> What am I doing wrong?  Or is it a bug in APT?
> 

Thanks for your bug report. The value of APT::Default-Release
overrides any pin specified in the preferences file, and your
Default-Release was testing, so the 990 pin for the default
release was applied to www.debian-multimedia.org as well.

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