Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: RE: CFEngine Help: Utilising debian backports Author: simonblake Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23727,23739#msg-23739
Hi Andreas Andreas Dan Larsson Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You can use the interface /etc/apt/preferences or > /etc/apt/preferenses.d/ (man apt_preferences) to > make specific overrides to the priority of > packages. > Im not sure if the "a=squeeze-backports" part > actually does what you like but I think it is apt > preferences you want to use. Thanks for that - in my limited testing, I can't get my box to take any notice of /etc/apt/preferences or /etc/apt/preferences.d/, so I can't test whether it would work any better than apt-get install package/squeeze-backports. It has occurred to me that I could take a copy of "body package_method apt" from cfengine_stdlib.cf, rename it and add a "-t squeeze-backports" to the relevant apt-get and aptitude calls, then change the package_method to point at my changed body. That might be quite a tidy way to route around the problem. Cheers Simon _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
