On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 08:55:08PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > Anyway, would be nice if Marillat's package versioning didn't override the > official packages. This makes using his repository for mencoder impractical.
you can use apt pinning for that I added this recently in README.Debian --------------------- on debian-multimedia Christian Marillat offers many multimedia-related packages in his repository, including, for example, 'mencoder' ; so you may want to add in /etc/apt/sources.list the line deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main But! some packages are both in Debian and in that repository; If the versions of packages from that repository are newer than those in Debian, you will substitute them; and this is the case of mplayer; so, if you do not wish this to happen, you may add vvvvvvvvvvvv Package: * Pin: release o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages Pin-Priority: 450 ^^^^^^^^^^ into /etc/apt/preferences. (This is called "apt pinning"). This will give preference to a Debian package. (If you want to give preference to Christian's package, use Pin-Priority: 550 ) To know if the above works, you can use the command $ apt-cache policy mplayer mplayer: Installed : .... Candidate : 1.0~rc1-8 Table de version : [version] [??] 450 http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main *** [version] [??] 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org ustable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Look where the *** are, and what "Candidate:..." says. (But, do not trust the output [??] in that list: see bug 254820). Unfortunately, currently (see bug 317186), the following "apt package pinning" does not work vvvvvvvvvvvv Package: mplayer Pin: release o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages Pin-Priority: 450 ^^^^^^^^^^ a. -- Andrea Mennucc "The EULA sounds like it was written by a team of lawyers who want to tell me what I can't do, and the GPL sounds like it was written by a human being who wants me to know what I can do." Anonymous, http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/420 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
