how to pin specific packages based on origin

[Derek Broughton]

P Kapat wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:47 PM, P Kapat <kap4lin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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....

Well, I've done it before, but pinning is pretty arcane and always liable to
work differently from your expectations, so I gave it up.  I went looking
for examples when you asked, but I don't have anything left around.
-- 
derek