On 2004-04-22 23:49:49 +0200, Andrei Badea wrote:
Having a slow Internet connection, I want to set /etc/apt/preferences so that packages from the CDs have a greater priority that those on the network. So I put in preferences:
Package: * Pin: origin ftp.cz.debian.org Pin-Priority: 500
IMHO this should set a priority of 500 for all packages from the ftp mirror.
If I've understood correctly, this sets a priority of *at least* 500 for all packages from the ftp mirror. But you may have other rules setting a higher priority.
I tried to change /etc/apt/preferences to this (one single rule):
Package: * Pin: origin ftp.cz.debian.org Pin-Priority: 999
in order to increase the priority, just to see what would happen. Unfortunately nothing, on apt-cache policy I get the same list that I posted before. All sources have the same priority 990. Maybe the "origin" syntax is wrong?
To be complete, here is my sources.list:
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 20040218 _Sid_ - fsn.hu unofficial i386 Binary-3 (20040218)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main non-US/non-free non-free
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 20040218 _Sid_ - fsn.hu unofficial i386 Binary-2 (20040218)]/ unstable contrib main main/debian-installer non-US/contrib non-US/main non-US/non-free non-free
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 20040218 _Sid_ - fsn.hu unofficial i386 Binary-1 (20040218)]/ unstable contrib main main/debian-installer non-US/contrib non-US/main non-US/non-free non-free
deb ftp://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian unstable contrib main
However, when I do a "apt-cache policy", I get:
... lines for the cdroms, priority 990 ... 990 ftp://ftp.cz.debian.org unstable/main Packages release o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Debian,c=main origin ftp.cz.debian.org 990 ftp://ftp.cz.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages release o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Debian,c=contrib origin ftp.cz.debian.org Pinned Packages:
So the priority of the network packages still is 990. Also, when I try to install a package, APT would always install the newest version from the network.
Could please anyone explain why? Thank you for any help.
This 990 may come from that [from apt_preferences(5)]:
priority 990 to the versions that are not installed and belong to the target release.
(whatever the source...).
Indeed, I set the target release to unstable in apt.conf.
The problem with preferences is that one can only increase a priority, not decrease it.
I didn't understand this from the manual, thank you.
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Andrei
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