On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 21:06, Erik Karu wrote: > Hi, > > I presume following is impossible with apt: > > list A, B, and C in sources.list, but use A as > "primary" repo, meaning that if a package is found > from A, don't install/update it from B or C even it's > newer there. If a package is not present in A, then > and only then use B or C. The simplest way, which probably does just what you want, is just to put the repositories in sources.list into your preferred order - in this case: A B C Just reordering the sources.list doesn't always change the order correctly due to ages old bug in apt cache generation, to be sure it gets the order right you'll want to do "rm -f /var/cache/apt/*.bin; apt-get update" after reordering sources.list. Much more powerful (and more complex as well) priorizing is possible by using "pinning" - see "man apt_preferences" for the gory details. Oh and if it seems obscure and difficult to understand, don't mind, it has that effect on most people :) Feel free to ask if you need help with that... - Panu -
