Am 19.03.2014 00:39, schrieb John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell: > "With the current version, apt would always try to install the newest > version of a package which usually comes from unstable or testing - > this could lead to a messed-up system. With apt-pinning, we can > define priorities so that a package gets installed from unstable or > testing only if there's no such package from stable." > > show me a control file entry, the description, for one package, ie, > from /var/lib/dpkg/status > > Package: gawk > > does is show [alpha] or [!i386] ? i don't think so. i think it does > arch is only when your using buildd to compile packages. not file > Packages.gz but yes in file Sources.gz > ... > so maybe you've just looked in the wrong debian manuals so far and > it's easier than you think. it's there ! >
May be I should have tried to explain why I'm asking. I'm experimenting with multiarch in wheezy and jessie. It seems to me, that e.g. for a cross-compiling environment it might be desirable to install packages for the target architecture not from the Debian archives but from another repository and use pinning to set this up. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5329d7cd.4070...@berlin.de
