Re: Removing packages from unofficial repositories

2014-01-04 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 12:52 -0500, Simon Ruggier wrote: > However, I would expect that most users would not have the patience to > do this via apt preferences, and if there is an easier way, I was not > aware of it. I also did this a few times. I remove the third-party repositories from sources.li

Re: Removing packages from unofficial repositories

2014-01-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 03/01/14 01:39 PM, Виталий Филиппов wrote: > If you have other 3rdparty repos, you'll also need to set 1001 for all > of them (except DMO), that should be enough. Simon wanted "a general, user-friendly way to deal with situations like this". This is neither. > And of course strictly speaking i

Re: Removing packages from unofficial repositories

2014-01-03 Thread Виталий Филиппов
Does it work if you have Debian, deb-multimedia, another third-party repo, and you just want to remove deb-multimedia? If you have other 3rdparty repos, you'll also need to set 1001 for all of them (except DMO), that should be enough. And of course strictly speaking it may be unsafe, but I t

Re: Removing packages from unofficial repositories

2014-01-03 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 01/03/2014 03:41 AM, Виталий Филиппов wrote: > AFAIK the apt_preferences method is rather simple: > > Package: * > Pin: release o=Debian > Pin-Priority: 1001 > > With that setting 'apt-get dist-upgrade' downgrades DMO packages to > official ones. At least it did in my case. Does it work if yo

Re: Removing packages from unofficial repositories

2014-01-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 01/03/2014 07:41 AM, Виталий Филиппов wrote: > AFAIK the apt_preferences method is rather simple: > > Package: * > Pin: release o=Debian > Pin-Priority: 1001 > > With that setting 'apt-get dist-upgrade' downgrades DMO packages to > official ones. At least it did in my case. > > For me, findin

Re: Removing packages from unofficial repositories

2014-01-03 Thread Виталий Филиппов
Hi all, I recently decided to migrate my Debian system away from deb-multimedia.org, where official packages exist. I used apt preferences to help me downgrade packages from deb-multimedia back to Debian testing, where an alternative version from testing exists. However, I would expect that most u

Re: Removing packages from unofficial repositories

2014-01-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
Simon, On 01/02/2014 01:52 PM, Simon Ruggier wrote: > I'm writing to suggest that in the long term, Debian's package > management should have a general, user-friendly way to deal with > situations like this, such as a mechanism to remove a repository > subscription, and all package versions that c

Removing packages from unofficial repositories

2014-01-02 Thread Simon Ruggier
Hi all, I recently decided to migrate my Debian system away from deb-multimedia.org, where official packages exist. I used apt preferences to help me downgrade packages from deb-multimedia back to Debian testing, where an alternative version from testing exists. However, I would expect that most us