Pin priority of packages

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Sun Jul 16 19:59:54 UTC 2006


John L Fjellstad wrote:

> Anyone know where the default pin priorities are set?
> I just checked my installation and apparently, security's pin priority
> is set to 500, while the default archive is set to 990. Changing the
> default archive (dapper) to 700 (with security at 900) didn't help,
> because the default archive never got changed.
> 
> Seems to be a bug (security archives really should have a higher
> priority)

Why?  Ubuntu's practices should ensure that there's never a situation where
you have a security archive with the same version as the default archive,
so pinning shouldn't matter.
-- 
derek





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