On Friday, 30 de January de 2015 03:03:46 tilt escribió:
> Am 30.01.2015 um 03:49 schrieb Adam Borowski:
> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 09:39:19PM +0000, Noel Torres wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> >> Given that, if we pin our repository to 1001, it will
> >> always have bigger priority than Debian's, even if Debian
> >> version is higher than ours, and even if we are trying to
> >> downgrade from a higher Debian version to a lower Devuan
> >> one.
> >
> > I don't think you should force a downgrade -- if the system
> > is on Devuan, a higher version being installed means an
> > intentional user action. Thus, a pin above 500 but less
> > than 990 would be appropriate.
>
> I second not using pin-priority 1001 or above.
>
> 1001 is what many admins (not reading into the details) use
> to make sure their decisions override whatever is
> preinstalled/preconfigured. It's basically advertised all
> over the web as the "override everything else" priority.
>
> If something preconfigured uses priority 1001, it's bound to
> cause confusion if not frustration.

I agree on not using so high pins. I was just posing an example.

In fact, as our release is called Jessie, we will need to ping the repository,
but after that, having different Release names will make the Target-Release
rule to be enough.

Regards

Noel
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