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[Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Richard Bos wrote:
> Op vrijdag 28 oktober 2005 21:16, schreef Alexander S. Usov:
>> -- try to enforce an complete upgrade to the kde-unstable repository. You
>> can achieve it by putting something like this into /etc/apt/preferences
>> ==== cut ====
>> Package: *
>> Pin: release c=kde-unstable
>> Pin-Priority: 1100
>>
>> Package: *
>> Pin: release *
>> Pin-Priority: -10
>>    ==== cut ====
>> and doing "apt-get upgrade"
> 
> To the smartpm masters on this list:  is this (pinning) possible with smartpm, 
> yum etc?  It's a not so known and not so often used apt feature, but 
> sometimes it comes in very handy.

You mean giving priorities to repositories ?

If that's what you mean, then yes, smart can do that very nicely.
smart channel <alias> --set priority=1100

It also works per package. Have a look at the README & FAQ

cheers
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