Re: apt-rpm and vesion precedence

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Hi,

Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Thu, 11 May 2006, Yannick Patois wrote:
>> I would like to thanks everybody for their useful answers.
>> Unfortunately, as often the bug is between the chair and the keyboard:
>> there was some pinning in the preference, installed by default, so I
> Right. Well, I'm mostly just happy it *was* pinning and not some strang=
e
> versioning bug in apt :)

>> Panu Matilainen a =E9crit :
>>> On Thu, 11 May 2006, Yannick Patois wrote:
>> There is some pinning, have a look:
>> # apt-cache policy apt-sourceslist
>> apt-sourceslist:
>>  Installed: 303-8.ires1
>>  Candidate: 1:30X-10.cern
>> Is there a way to alter the package so that it would take precedence?

> Pin priority overrides anything else, there's no way around that with
> I guess your best option would be to try to make your repository look
> like one of the cern mirrors so the same 980 pin would take effect for
> your repositories.=20

> possible caveat: it might require full cache rebuild to get apt to
> notice the changed repository release-entries and that can't be
> automatically triggered. Back to square one if that's the case.

That solution seemed to work just great! I Added Origin: linux.cern.ch
did an apt-get update/upgrade and everything worked fine. So I bet
automatic update tonight will pick my own version without any problem.

Thank you very much!

	Yannick
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