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Re: ppa pinning

 

This is a great trick, but be careful not to forget that you've done this.
Otherwise down the road you'll be very surprised by some apt-get
dist-upgrade output.

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 7:12 AM, Kevin Gunn <kevin.gunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi all,
> yesterday I was doing some testing on 2 different ppa's that had packages
> older than than our current vivid phone overlay ppa, so the packages I
> wanted weren't loaded.
> Since I ran into this twice, thought others might see the same... to
> address it, just modify
> /etc/apt/preferences.d/extra-ppas.pref
>
> To include your desired ppa with higher priority, like so
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release o=LP-PPA-my-ppa-i-really-want
> Pin-Priority: 1002
>
> br,kg
>
>
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