Thank you for your email. > > > >I want to assign a lower priority to packages which come from other > >sites than debian.org. > > > >The problem: > >testing is my target release. In my sources.list there the following > >entries: > > > >deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main > >deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian stable main non-free contrib > >deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian testing main non-free contrib > >deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian unstable main non-free contrib > >deb http://www.linex.org/sources/linex/debian sarge linex > >... > > > ># apt-cache policy mozilla-firefox > >mozilla-firefox: > > Installed: 1.0.6-1.linex1 > > Candidate: 1.0.6-1.linex1 > > Version Table: > > 1.0.6-5 0 > > 400 http://ftp.at.debian.org unstable/main Packages > > *** 1.0.6-1.linex1 0 > > 990 http://www.linex.org sarge/linex Packages > > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > > 1.0.4-2sarge3 0 > > 500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages > > 990 http://ftp.at.debian.org testing/main Packages > > 1.0.4-2 0 > > 400 http://ftp.at.debian.org stable/main Packages > > > >But this is not what I want. I want to have 1.0.4-2sarge3 0 installed. > >Automatically! > > > >Does anyone know, if this possible (by changing the apt_preferences, for > >example). > > > > man apt_preferences, include > > APT::Default-Release "testing"; > > in /etc/apt/apt.conf (create one if you don't have one) > > then include something like > > Package: * > Pin: release a=unstable > Pin-Priority: 500 > > in /etc/apt/preferences (again may need to create) > > This should prevent unstable packages being given the same, or higher > priority as testing. >
I tried that but didn't work. Seems logical to me. The linex packages are also denoted as testing. Therefore, this doesn't work. I really need to give to all packages of a certain site a lower priority. Any idea? Florian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
