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Title: Apt Pinning
Post by: ZDevil on December 16, 2007, 02:16:38 am

Found a nice newbie-friendly article on apt pinning, which enables the user to prioritize the repos in /etc/apt/sources.list instead of installing/upgrading things simply based on the versioning of the packages:

http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html (http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html)

One immediate use I thought of is to assign the highest priority to jpmatrix's custom repo, so that 2or0's mplayer won't get replaced by apt-get dist-upgrade.  

Title: Apt Pinning
Post by: scottlfa on December 16, 2007, 11:19:27 am

VERY Helpful, helps with gnumeric too which is broken in armel.

Whats the soure entry for 2or0's custom repo?  I have jpmatrix one mentioned in your signature, noticed mplayer wasn't in there.

Title: Apt Pinning
Post by: cal on January 26, 2010, 03:41:25 pm

Quote from: ZDevil

Found a nice newbie-friendly article on apt pinning, which enables the user to prioritize the repos in /etc/apt/sources.list instead of installing/upgrading things simply based on the versioning of the packages:

http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html (http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html)

One immediate use I thought of is to assign the highest priority to jpmatrix's custom repo, so that 2or0's mplayer won't get replaced by apt-get dist-upgrade.  

My /etc/apt/preferences is pretty much exactly whats on that link plus a line to keep udev from upgrading.  Any others?  Maybe we should keep a list of potential apt pit falls.

Code: [Select]

Package: udev
Pin: version 0.114-2
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 650

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 600
Cal
PS my udev pin might not be at the highest possible version, but it hasn't caused a problem yet.

Title: Apt Pinning
Post by: axeTail on January 27, 2010, 02:11:25 pm

Quote from: cal

Quote from: ZDevil

Found a nice newbie-friendly article on apt pinning, which enables the user to prioritize the repos in /etc/apt/sources.list instead of installing/upgrading things simply based on the versioning of the packages:

http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html (http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html)

One immediate use I thought of is to assign the highest priority to jpmatrix's custom repo, so that 2or0's mplayer won't get replaced by apt-get dist-upgrade.  

My /etc/apt/preferences is pretty much exactly whats on that link plus a line to keep udev from upgrading.  Any others?  Maybe we should keep a list of potential apt pit falls.

Code: [Select]

Package: udev
Pin: version 0.114-2
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 650

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 600
Cal
PS my udev pin might not be at the highest possible version, but it hasn't caused a problem yet.

Thanks for the info, my udev is broken....any ideas on how to fix it?

Title: Apt Pinning
Post by: cal on January 27, 2010, 09:09:28 pm

Quote from: axeTail

Quote from: cal

Quote from: ZDevil

Found a nice newbie-friendly article on apt pinning, which enables the user to prioritize the repos in /etc/apt/sources.list instead of installing/upgrading things simply based on the versioning of the packages:

http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html (http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html)

One immediate use I thought of is to assign the highest priority to jpmatrix's custom repo, so that 2or0's mplayer won't get replaced by apt-get dist-upgrade.  

My /etc/apt/preferences is pretty much exactly whats on that link plus a line to keep udev from upgrading.  Any others?  Maybe we should keep a list of potential apt pit falls.

Code: [Select]

Package: udev
Pin: version 0.114-2
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 650

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 600
Cal
PS my udev pin might not be at the highest possible version, but it hasn't caused a problem yet.

Thanks for the info, my udev is broken....any ideas on how to fix it?

Sorry, I don't really.
Maybe you can roll back with  sudo aptitude install <pkgname>=<version>

Title: Apt Pinning
Post by: HRH_H_Crab on February 26, 2010, 10:22:58 am

Quote from: axeTail

Thanks for the info, my udev is broken....any ideas on how to fix it?

Look at my post in the Udev and Kernel thread.