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LMDE repos and Squeeze
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 8:59 am
by malayo
how do i do apt-pinning to avoid conflict with squeeze's packages?
what should i put in /etc/apt/preferences ?
would it be something like below:
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Package: *
Pin: release a=debian
Pin-Priority: 200
How to convert Debian to LMDE? [SOLVED]
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 12:47 pm
by malayo
macias wrote:Hmm, you mean that verbatim quote of pinning in the articles mentioned at start of this thread are not good enough?
i think i'm on a wrong topic since i'm not converting squeeze to lmde but merely using lmde repo to get the latest thunderbird and firefox on squeeze with the preferences file like so:
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Package: *
Pin: release a=squeeze
Pin-Priority: 300
Package: *
Pin: release a=debian
Pin-Priority: 200
so squeeze packages will have a higher priority upon package installation/upgrade
Re: LMDE repos and Squeeze
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 5:13 pm
by vrkalak
My LMDE /etc/apt/preferences list for Pinning purposes.
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Package: *
Pin: release o=linuxmint
Pin-Priority: 1001
Package: *
Pin: origin packages.linuxmint.com
Pin-Priority: 1001
Package: *
Pin: release o=testing
Pin-Priority: 700