APT Pinning issues.

[Thibaut Varene]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:30:18 -0800, Scott Robinson <scott at quadhome.com> wrote:
> I'm having issues pinning the Ubuntu archives. It seems the component
> tags don't exist. When I specify, for example:
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release c=universe
> Pin-Priority: 100
> 
> No changes occur in my policy. (as found from apt-cache policy)
> Furthermore, that policy list shows no indication of there being a
> component tag on each section of the archive.
> 
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/PinningHowto implies the components were
> set on Warty.
> 
> Am I doing this wrong, or has there simply been a change between Warty
> and Hoary and there isn't any way to pin on the individual components in
> the archive?

I think you got it wrong. Pinning is meant to use package from
different *releases*, not different *sections* of the archives.

eg: you might want to use pinning to install hoary packages on a warty box.
Or sid packages on a sarge box (for Debian systems).

HTH

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Thibaut VARENE
The PA/Linux Team
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