Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Package: * > Pin: release o=Debian/~njordan > Pin-Priority: 989
> !!! Will those who know please check the above and see if my > understanding of how apt/preferences is supposed to be used is correct? > I'd hate to give misinformation and have a lot of people believe I know > what I'm talking about. :-) > I think that the "Release" file for ~njordan, corresponding to: > deb http://people.debian.org/~njordan kde3.0/ > ... should look like: > Archive: unstable > Component: main > Origin: Debian/~njordan > Label: Debian > Architecture: i386 Hello, Well, I just tried it out with my local deb file:/apt-zusatz/ ./ and the entry for /etc/apt/preferences quoted above (but with Pin-Priority: 666) and it seemed to work: ------------------ *prompt* apt-cache policy exim4-daemon-light exim4-daemon-light: Installed: (none) Candidate: 4.10-0.srh20.19 Version Table: 4.10-0.srh20.19 0 666 file: ./ Packages ------------------ I had to remove the entry from source.list, call apt-get update, re-add the entry to source.list and call apt-get /again/ to force reading the Release-file. Afaik it does not matter very much what you put in the Origin and Label fields, but it seems to make sense to use the correct stable/testing/unstable in Archive because it corresponds to the value used as argument for "apt-get --default-release". You might want to add a Version-line cu andreas -- Hey, da ist ein Ballonautomat auf der Toilette! Unofficial _Debian-packages_ of latest unstable _tin_ http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/tin-snapshot/
