On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:41:41AM -0600, Nate Carlson wrote: > I've convered my box at home to Debian's AMD64 'pure64' distro. > Unfortunately, some of the third-party sources.list entries I've been > using don't have amd64 ports as of this time. I'd like to be able to list > the ubuntu sources.list entries (they have most of the packages I need), > but *not* upgrade to newer system packages in that archive per default. Is > there any way to tell Debian to do that? > > In other words, I've got two entries in my sources.list file: > > deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 unstable main non-free contrib > deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu warty main restricted universe multiverse > > If a package exists in debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org (ie, libc6), I want > to use that one, even if a newer package is available from > archive.ubuntu.com. If a package doesn't exist in alioth, or I specify a > version that is on ubuntu, I want it to come from there. > > Is there any way to easily do this? You should be able to do what you want with pinning. Take a look at the tutorial at: http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html for more details check the Apt Howto: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.en.html -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons | _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list