Unfortunately no one has responded to this by now, I too was waiting. The apt_preferences manpage does mention pinning an origin, but until now I couldn't succeed. My less attractive alternative was to add all packages on my CDs into my preferences file. What I got was an unreasonably long file, produced by this one-liner:
perl -ne 'print if /^Package:/ or s/^Version: (.+)/Pin: version $1\n/;' You have to supply an argument: list of files. Maybe that can vary, I don't know, on my system it was "/var/lib/apt/lists/D*", in contrast to "/var/lib/apt/lists/f*" for ftp. Take a look at the files there and redirect the output to your new preferences file. andrej -- echo ${girl_name} > /etc/dumpdates -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]