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From: Stuckey on 21 Feb 2010 09:10 Hello, I have the debian-multimedia in my sources.list file, and so far I've just been commenting it in/out whenever I want to install something from it. I only want certain packages from it, the ones that I can't get from the regular repository. How can I configure aptitude so that it will only pull the packages that I tell it to from debiam-multimedia? I'm using Sid. Here's my sources.list file: #### unstable ######## deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free #deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib non-free #### dmm ######### #deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main Thanks, Stuckey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100221150630.1783210k05y2j5ra(a)webmail.uni-wuerzburg.de
From: Rob Owens on 21 Feb 2010 10:20 On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 03:06:30PM +0100, Stuckey wrote: > Hello, > > I have the debian-multimedia in my sources.list file, and so far I've > just been commenting it in/out whenever I want to install something from > it. I only want certain packages from it, the ones that I can't get from > the regular repository. How can I configure aptitude so that it will only > pull the packages that I tell it to from debiam-multimedia? > > I'm using Sid. Here's my sources.list file: > > #### unstable ######## > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free > deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free > > #deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib non-free > > #### dmm ######### > #deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main > This info comes from backports.org, but it should also apply to debian-mulitmedia.org, as far as pinning priority goes: If you want to get your packages from backports upgraded automatically the following entry in /etc/apt/preferences should be sufficient: Package: * Pin: release a=lenny-backports Pin-Priority: 200 I *think* your pin line should read like this: Pin: origin www.debian-multimedia.org I have lenny-backports pinned at 200, and it does not install anything from backports w/o me specifying it. It will automatically upgrade existing backports packages with newer versions of backports packages as they come out. See man apt_preferences for more details. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100221151839.GB8278(a)aurora.owens.net
From: Freeman on 22 Feb 2010 02:10 On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 03:06:30PM +0100, Stuckey wrote: > Hello, > > I have the debian-multimedia in my sources.list file, and so far > I've just been commenting it in/out whenever I want to install > something from it. I only want certain packages from it, the ones > that I can't get from the regular repository. How can I configure > aptitude so that it will only pull the packages that I tell it to > from debiam-multimedia? > > I'm using Sid. Here's my sources.list file: > > #### unstable ######## > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free > deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free > > #deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib non-free > > #### dmm ######### > #deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main > Guess I always wanted the upgrade if there was a package in multimedia. Refer: man apt_preferences; Apt's Default Priority Assignments Apt preferences docs interchange terms like they were dice in street craps, or my head is a fish bowl, which may be a possibility. Nevertheless, my read is that if you install one of Marillat's sid packages, it will be 1.) a higher version of the 2.) same release from the 3.) Multimedia distribution. If you set your target release as described to unstable, unstable packages from the debian distribution will receive a priority of 990. That will not allow an automatic upgrade to a different distribution (Multimedia) but it also will not allow an automatic downgrade from a higher release. Aptitude will try to satisfy dependencies to do what you ask. Commenting the multimedia source out might even lower the those packages priorities in an unrelated resolution attempt by Aptitude. I believe I've seen Aptitude remove packages after I closed a source. I think you should just set your target release to unstable and leave Multimedia open. If you have to pin a package with a target release set, you'll have to pin it between 991-1000 to get the upgrade. Package: < package_name > Pin: version < n.n.n* > Pin-Priority: 991 Then you will have to watch and edit for version changes. -- Kind Regards, Freeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100222070025.GB7355(a)Europa.office
From: Freeman on 22 Feb 2010 02:20 On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:00:25PM -0800, evenso wrote: Erratum: > > If you set your target release as described to unstable, unstable packages > from the debian distribution will receive a priority of 990. That will not > allow an automatic upgrade to a different distribution (Multimedia) but it > also will not allow an automatic downgrade from a higher release. > Should read "downgrade from a higher *version* (Multimedia packages)." Although "release" is also true. -- Kind Regards, Freeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100222071005.GC7355(a)Europa.office
From: Andrei Popescu on 22 Feb 2010 03:20 On Sun,21.Feb.10, 23:00:25, Freeman wrote: > Nevertheless, my read is that if you install one of Marillat's sid packages, > it will be 1.) a higher version of the 2.) same release from the 3.) > Multimedia distribution. > > If you set your target release as described to unstable, unstable packages > from the debian distribution will receive a priority of 990. That will not > allow an automatic upgrade to a different distribution (Multimedia) but it > also will not allow an automatic downgrade from a higher release. Only debian-multimedia is not a different distribution, just a different source: $ apt-cache policy mplayer mplayer: Instalat: 1:1.0.rc2svn20100219-0.0 CandideazÄ: 1:1.0.rc2svn20100219-0.0 Tabela de versiuni: *** 1:1.0.rc2svn20100219-0.0 0 500 http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:1.0.rc2svn20091220-0.0 0 500 http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze/main Packages 1.0~rc3+svn20090405-1+b1 0 500 http://debian.networx-bg.com sid/main Packages 500 http://ftp.at.debian.org squeeze/main Packages 1.0~rc2-17+lenny3 0 500 http://ftp.at.debian.org lenny/main Packages As you can see, debian-multimedia and my regular Debian source have same priority and setting Default-Release will affect both, but the "higher"[1] version from debian-multimedia is still installed automatically. [1] I write "higher" with quotes because the actual version is smaller, but Christian Marillat is using an epoch to get his version before the official one. > I think you should just set your target release to unstable and leave > Multimedia open. > > If you have to pin a package with a target release set, you'll have to pin > it between 991-1000 to get the upgrade. > > Package: < package_name > > Pin: version < n.n.n* > > Pin-Priority: 991 Just pinning debian-multimedia to a lower priority than the official source should be enough. What ever you (the OP) are trying out, use apt-cache policy <package> to test. mplayer is a good package to test because it exists in both repos. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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