[Synaptic-devel] Re: apt_preferences and Synaptic

[Mike Snitzer]

On Tue, Mar 11 2003 at 16:36,
Gustavo Niemeyer <address@hidden> wrote:

> > 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"?

Nope; unfortunately it doesn't.

Mike