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Re: apt pinning to blacklist a package
by Andrei Popescu-3
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On Tue,07.Jul.09, 21:38:57, Rob Owens wrote:
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> Since "fakerepo" is not a valid release, "somepackage" is never
> installable. I'm still not sure why my original scheme didn't work.
Sounds kind of hackish. When you have troubles with pinning the output
of 'apt-cache policy <package>' helps a lot.
Regards,
Andrei
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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)
>
> Since "fakerepo" is not a valid release, "somepackage" is never
> installable. I'm still not sure why my original scheme didn't work.
Sounds kind of hackish. When you have troubles with pinning the output
of 'apt-cache policy <package>' helps a lot.
Regards,
Andrei
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)
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