how to pin specific packages based on origin

[P Kapat]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:47 PM, P Kapat <kap4lin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Specifically, why doesn't the following pinning work?
>
> Package: *vlc*
> Pin: origin ppa.launchpad.net
> Pin-Priority: 800
>
> Whereas the following does:
>
> Package: *
> Pin: origin ppa.launchpad.net
> Pin-Priority: 800
>
> This is not what I want! I just want to pin the vlc packages from
> launchpad at higher piority. This is not vlc or launchpad specific. I
> have tried to ping other packages from different origin, without
> success; unless I pin ALL (using *) packages from that origin!

No apt- guru here? Share some of your apt-fu....


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