| Art Alexion on 21 Jun 2005 13:48:56 -0000 |
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Tobias DiPasquale wrote: > > On Jun 20, 2005, at 2:10 PM, Art Alexion wrote: > > >> suppose your sources.list has multiple repositories with a > >> particular package, and you want to set a priority as to which > >> repository will be used in preference. How would you do this? > > > Put them in preferential order from top to bottom in the sources.list > file. Stephen Gran wrote: >You can pin the sources to different priorities. man apt_preferences, I >believe, has the details. The syntax is not pretty, and easy to get >wrong. > Thanks Stephen and Tobias, the apt_preferences man page had the answers I was looking for. It looks as though simple ordering is all it takes for prioritizing the *same version* of a package among different repositories, while pinning is necessary to prioritize among *different versions*. The latter seems to be the key to solving those insoluble dependency problems when you install certain software that is not part of the distro version. -- _______________________________________ Art Alexion Arthur S. Alexion LLC arthur [at] alexion [dot] com aim: aalexion sms: 2679725536 [at] messaging [dot] sprintpcs [dot] com PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A The attachment -- signature.asc -- is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html Key for signed PDFs available at http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/ArthurSAlexion.p7c The validation string is TTJY-ZILJ-BJJG. ________________________________________ Attachment:
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