[Synaptic-devel] Re: apt_preferences and Synaptic

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

> I'm attempting to get a particular APT repo to have a higher priority than
> all other repos listed in sources.list; I've accomplished this with:
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release o=lnxi.com,c=hiper
> Pin-Priority: 1001
> 
> 'apt-cache policy' verifies this to be working.  My question is why
> doesn't Synaptic list package availability according to the repository
> with a higher priority?

Hummm.. it looks like we have a broken algorithm here. Does it install
the right package if you go and ask Synaptic to install whatever it
has "available"?

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Gustavo Niemeyer

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