Hi all! At the moment I'm using Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze in my workstation and to doing tests on VoIP I'm needing to install the Twinkle package specifically in its version of the stable branch. According to what I was reading, this is possible to be done with pinning and I was reading the man pages of apt_preferences, but not yet I know clearly how the the priorities works, reason why I would like if somebody can help me to understand how it works.
For example, I was trying creating the /etc/apt/preferences file with
the following content:
Package: twinkle
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 900
Then, I verify the priorities:
# apt-cache policy twinkle
twinkle:
Instalados: (ninguno)
Candidato: 1:1.2-3
Pin del paquete: 1:1.2-3
Tabla de versión:
1:1.4.2-2 900
500 http://debian.freesoftware.org testing/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1:1.2-3 900
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main Packages
According to man pages of apt_preferences, if it doesn't have defined a
"target release", to installed packages a priority of 100 is assigned
and to the rest is assigned 500. I think for that reason there is a
'500' associated to each reposity. Although the candidate is the package
for stable as I try that it is, is not clear to me why are associated
the priority 900 as much for testing as for stable.
Independent of this doubt, according to which I was testing, the package
of the stable branch are installed and it stays, that it is what I
wanted; that is to say, if I do upgrade, beyond which the package of
testing has a newer version, it isn't updated the installed one of the
stable branch.
Continuing with my understanding of how the priorities works, I tried
adding in my sources.list the unstable repository and adding a block in
the preferences file:
Package: twinkle
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 900
Package: twinkle
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 950
Here I pose a similar doubt to which I exposed above: why the value 950
appears associated to each version if I assigned in the preferences file
a priority of 900 to the version of stable branch and 950 to the version
of the unestable branch?
Like additional data, I see that /var/lib/dpkg/status moved of place
with value 100. This suggests to me that this file has a listing of all
the installed packages and since those that are under this condition we
said that a priority of 100 is assigned to them, I imagine that this is
the form in which Debian says to us 'all the packages that are in this
file have priority of 100'. Bah, in fact, instead of the _last_
installed, would be the last ones that sometimes could be installed,
since later I did 'remove'.
Thanks in advance for your reply.
Regards,
Daniel
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