Re: give cdrom source more priority in apt-get [lost the original]

2003-01-29 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, andrej hocevar said: > Unfortunately no one has responded to this by now, I too was waiting. > The apt_preferences manpage does mention pinning an origin, but > until now I couldn't succeed. In the Release.gz that comes from each source, you will find the various fiel

Re: give cdrom source more priority in apt-get [lost the original]

2003-01-29 Thread andrej hocevar
Unfortunately no one has responded to this by now, I too was waiting. The apt_preferences manpage does mention pinning an origin, but until now I couldn't succeed. My less attractive alternative was to add all packages on my CDs into my preferences file. What I got was an unreasonably long file, p

give cdrom source more priority in apt-get

2003-01-26 Thread Dan Jacobson
Assuming $ apt-cache policy twlog twlog: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1.3-2 Version Table: 1.3-2 0 500 http://linux.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw sid/main Packages 500 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux SID _Sid_ - fsn.hu unofficial i386 Binary-4 (20021010)] unstable/main Packages How can I