On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Arturo Diaz Rosemberg wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 09:24, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I want to use pinning with apt on centos5, but I can't figure out the
syntax. Most documentation is very debian-centric... I don't know what to
use to identify my repos: Archive, Component, Origin, Label...?
I'm currently using Origin
Basically I want my package to always come from centos if centos has it;
otherwise if it's in rpmforge take it from there; and as a last resort get
it in arrfab's repo, epel or other 3rd party repos.
Does anybody have a working example of /etc/apt/preferences for this kind
of scenario?
I'm using only two repos: centos and rpmforge, my /etc/apt/preferences looks
like this:
Package: *
Pin: origin apt.sw.be
Pin-Priority: 400
The default priority is 500 so apt will prefer any package from centos. You
could add more repos the same way.
It is true that pinning is not properly explained and we should do better
to explain eg. that a priorities plugin for apt is basicly unnecessary
thank to pinning.
I would like to have the RPMforge website explain this, as well have a
seperate section for apt users on the CentOS wiki.
However pinning on origin is probably not the best way, since people may
use another mirror and not realise that the pinning stopped working. So a
good default would be very useful.
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