Re: apt pinning confusion

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:59:19PM +1000, Jaime Tarrant wrote:
Alex Samad wrote:
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:08:38AM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:

[snip]


Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian, a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 550

your numbers seem very high my preferences is
package: *
pin:
release a=unstable

Pin-Priority: 100




package: *

pin: release
a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 50



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The number range -1 thru 1000+ is perfectly acceptable. Excerpt from:

# man 5 apt_preferences

P > 1000
causes an instance to be installed even if this constitutes a
downgrade of the package

990 < P <=1000
causes an instance to be installed even if it does not come from
the target release, unless the installed instance is more recent

500 < P <=990
causes an instance to be installed unless there is an instance
available belonging to the target release or the installed version is
more recent

100 < P <=500
causes an instance to be installed unless there is an instance
available belonging to some other distribution or the installed
version is more recent

0 <= P <=100
causes an instance to be installed only if there is no installed
instance of the package

P < 0 prevents the instance from being installed

-

Hope that helps.
yeah new about that, my meaning was more along the lines of if you are
trying to follow testing then the number he picked might be a bit high
550 for experimental ?

Regards,
Jaime


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