On Sun,21.Feb.10, 23:00:25, Freeman wrote: > Nevertheless, my read is that if you install one of Marillat's sid packages, > it will be 1.) a higher version of the 2.) same release from the 3.) > Multimedia distribution. > > If you set your target release as described to unstable, unstable packages > from the debian distribution will receive a priority of 990. That will not > allow an automatic upgrade to a different distribution (Multimedia) but it > also will not allow an automatic downgrade from a higher release. Only debian-multimedia is not a different distribution, just a different source:
$ apt-cache policy mplayer
mplayer:
Instalat: 1:1.0.rc2svn20100219-0.0
Candidează: 1:1.0.rc2svn20100219-0.0
Tabela de versiuni:
*** 1:1.0.rc2svn20100219-0.0 0
500 http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1:1.0.rc2svn20091220-0.0 0
500 http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze/main Packages
1.0~rc3+svn20090405-1+b1 0
500 http://debian.networx-bg.com sid/main Packages
500 http://ftp.at.debian.org squeeze/main Packages
1.0~rc2-17+lenny3 0
500 http://ftp.at.debian.org lenny/main Packages
As you can see, debian-multimedia and my regular Debian source have same
priority and setting Default-Release will affect both, but the
"higher"[1] version from debian-multimedia is still installed
automatically.
[1] I write "higher" with quotes because the actual version is smaller,
but Christian Marillat is using an epoch to get his version before the
official one.
> I think you should just set your target release to unstable and leave
> Multimedia open.
>
> If you have to pin a package with a target release set, you'll have to pin
> it between 991-1000 to get the upgrade.
>
> Package: < package_name >
> Pin: version < n.n.n* >
> Pin-Priority: 991
Just pinning debian-multimedia to a lower priority than the official
source should be enough. What ever you (the OP) are trying out, use
apt-cache policy <package> to test. mplayer is a good package to test
because it exists in both repos.
Regards,
Andrei
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