On Sun, 15 May 2016 22:54:33 -0400 ". fsmithred" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Florian, > > Thanks! I tried pinning backports like that a few weeks ago, and it > didn't work. I thought it was due to changes in the way pinning is > done. I don't think I ever would have figured that one out on my own. > Does the pinning work properly if you remove 00defaultrelease? I > can't test this right now, but I will do it in a few days. > > -fsr > Hallo fsr, I'll reply to the list as well, hope that's fine... Yes indeed, the [APT::Default-Release "jessie";] line seems to suppress apt pinning. My first thought had been, that amprolla / the merging workflow somehow interferes with pinning, but after a second of alarm I verified that my desktop, which runs a similar configuration, has only manually selected backports installed. I also had tried to get backports from another mirror and pin by "origin", to no avail. Further experiments fell prey to the lucky fact that I remembered (and found) your apt related mail ;) IIU apt_perferences(5) correctly, the "Default-Release" preference was intended to play together with a "NotAutomatic: yes" entry in the repository's release file (see section "APT's Default Priority Assignments"), but I'm still not sure if its impact on pinning is a bug or not. Florian _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
