Pinning a package to Feisty
Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org
Mon Oct 29 14:29:02 UTC 2007
I built 1.5.13-1.1ubuntu3 from Feisty source on my Gutsy machine.
I now need to tell apt not to upgrade to Gutsy version, which it wants
to do. So I added:
$ cat /etc/apt/preferences
Package: mutt
Pin: version 1.5.13*
Pin-Priority: 1000
Thus:
$ apt-cache policy mutt
mutt:
Installed: 1.5.13-1.1ubuntu3
Candidate: 1.5.13-1.1ubuntu3
Package pin: 1.5.13-1.1ubuntu3
Version table:
1.5.15+20070412-1ubuntu1 1000
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main Packages
*** 1.5.13-1.1ubuntu3 1000
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
My question is can I instead pin so if a *newer* version of mutt
becomes available in Gutsy (hopefully fixing a bug that forced me to
pin in the first place) then the new version will get installed?
Thanks,
--
Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org
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