Re: apt pinning to blacklist a package
- From: Rob Owens <rowens@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 21:38:57 -0400
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 09:12:39PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong...Argh, moments after posting I came across a solution (I swear I've been googling for days). It works like this:
I want to prevent a particular package from ever being installed. In /etc/apt/preferences I have:
Package: somepackage
Pin: version *
Pin-Priority: -1
But the package can still be installed by either command:
apt-get install somepackage
apt-get install otherpackage (where 'otherpackage' depends on
'somepackage')
I thought maybe the 'version *' was throwing it off, so I replaced '*' with
the actual version number and the package still gets installed.
Any ideas how to achieve my goal of blacklisting this particular package?
-Rob
Package: somepackage
Pin: release a=fakerepo
Pin-Priority: 1001
Since "fakerepo" is not a valid release, "somepackage" is never
installable. I'm still not sure why my original scheme didn't work.
I got the solution from here: http://discuss.itwire.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=13787&p=49182
-Rob
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