Re: Red Carpet ?

[Mike Snitzer <msnitzer lnxi com>]

On Wed, Dec 03 2003 at 12:46,
Steven Pritchard <steve silug org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 06:37:45PM +0100, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> > I understand apt allows something called pinning but I have never had
> > the courage to configure it :)
> 
> You should.  Try the following in /etc/apt/preferences:
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release c=os
> Pin-Priority: 992
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release c=stable
> Pin-Priority: 991

See but this doesn't allow you to pick and choose from os and stable; it
forces os packages to override stable packages.  I'd imagine that with
enough effort apt-rpm (via lua) could be made to allow such choosy
selection of available packages within various APT components.

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