Hello On 12/1/09, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > Yes, read (man 5 apt_preferences) and review the output of (apt-cache policy) > or (apt-cache policy $package). > > For a full practical example, see <http://iguanasuicide.net/node/4>. > I looked at the pages and right now it *seems* to be doing what I need. In my case, I set li...@debian-liv:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release n=cran2deb Pin-Priority: 1001
which gives li...@debian-liv:~$ apt-cache policy | grep cran 1001 http://debian.cran.r-project.org testing/ Packages release o=root,a=testing,n=cran2deb,l=root,c= origin debian.cran.r-project.org and now aptitude proposes to upgrade, for example, r-cran-urca 1.2-3-1cran1 -> 1.2-3-1cran2 instead of r-cran-urca 1.2-3-1cran1 -> 1.2-3-2 , which is what I want. This doesn't seem to affect Synaptic, though. It still proposes to upgrade r-cran-urca 1.2-3-1cran1 -> 1.2-3-2 , something that I don't want. How can I instruct Synaptic to honour the priorities defined in /etc/apt/preferences? Thank you Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
