On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 15:46:36 +0000, Faheem Mitha wrote: > Really? This is not what the apt_preferences man page says. In > particular > > "Each package may be pinned to a specific version and each Packages > file has a priority for every package inside. The highest priority > assigned to a package is the one that is used." > > I admit I haven't looked at the source code, so I don't know how this > is implemented, but it seems clear to me. Also, this is not just > theoretical. I have a bunch of X 4.1 packages installed, and the lines > in the apt preferences file prevent them from being upgraded to the > more recent 4.2 version. I thought this is what you were > after. Correct me if I was mistaken.
But what if you want to allow the upgrade to 4.3 (or higher) when it becomes available? This is the problem. > > I would like something like the opposite: give a low score to some > > version, but I don't know how to do this, because the generic rules > > seem to take the precedence in this case. > > But the other versions would by default have lower scores, so would > not be installed in favour of your pinned version. The version > installed is always the version with the highest pin number. Note that > 1000 is the downgrade prevention barrier, so with the above Pin even > more recent versions should be removed in favour of the pinned > version. which is not what I want. -- Vincent Lef�vre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> - 100% validated (X)HTML - Acorn Risc PC, Yellow Pig 17, Championnat International des Jeux Math�matiques et Logiques, TETRHEX, etc. Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
