[maemo-developers] apt-get pinning Extras repositories

[From: Niels Breet]

> Hi,
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> Quite recently the extras-testing and extras-devel repositories had a
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> Label: extras-testing
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> set in the Release file. This allowed me to use /etc/apt/preferences to
> pin the testing/devel repositories to a lower priority, so that I wouldn't
> need to worry about getting unwanted upgrades from them.
>
> But recently, these labels vanished from the release file, and the
> extras and extras-testing Release files seem identical, allowing no way to
> pin them.
>
> Could the repo maintainers add the Label back, so that pinning would
> still be possible and easy? (Or is there an alternative way to do the
> pinning?)
>
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8072

I've fixed that, will take some time for it to be visible.


> --
> Pauli Virtanen
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Niels Breet
maemo.org webmaster