So I now have as only entry in my /etc/apt/preferences:
Package: * Pin: origin schuldei.org Pin-Priority: 999
Rationale: the man-page says about origin "fully qualified domain" and "debian.org" is really "www.debian.org" so I did the same for schuldei.org which is really "www.schuldei.org".
In any case: I ran apt-get update on the sources list and I would
expect
that "apt-cache policy x-window-system" would show something of the preferences. It does not. It shows:
x-window-system: Installed: 4.3.0-0pre1v3 Candidate: 4.3.0-0pre1v3 Version Table: *** 4.3.0-0pre1v3 0 500 http://www.schuldei.org ./ Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 4.2.1-12.1 0 500 http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de testing/main Packages
Shouln't I see something of what I put in the preferences? Or not?
Okay, I looked back at this. Sure enough, the "origin" Pin does seem to want the FQDN, not just the suffix. Or at least, that's the way the output of apt-cache policy makes it look... although I think the Pin still works. Oh well, add it to the list of APT mysteries. Try it out and see if it works for you.
But I still wonder: when does the preference (or does it?) show up in the policy?
H.
(Tip: I use apt-cache policy and apt-cache search so often, I gave them shell aliases:
alias acp='apt-cache policy' alias acs='apt-cache search'
Also
alias acg='apt-cache showpkg' alias acw='apt-cache show'
are useful.)
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