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Autor: Florian Zieboll
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To: dng
Betreff: Re: [DNG] Advice on a package pinning
On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:49:56 +0100
Florian Zieboll via Dng <dng@???> wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:00:19 +0100
> "Antonio Trkdz.tab via Dng" <dng@???> wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I could use some advice on a package pinning which I have set.
> > I need a version of ripgrep (>11.0) only available in Ceres repos.
> > Hence, I enabled the ceres repo in my sources.list file and I pinned
> > all packages from this release with:
> >
> > Package: *
> > Pin: release n=ceres
> > Pin-Priority: -1
> >
> > After I enabled the package and its dependencies with:
> >
> > Package: ripgrep libgcc-s1 gcc-10-base
> > Pin: release n=ceres
> > Pin-Priority: 660
> >
> > With this I installed the intended version of ripgrep. However I am
> > afraid that the dependencies could cause problems as gcc packages
> > are involved, I have already seen a warning about outdated binaries
> > during installation. What do you think? I am doing something wrong
> > here?
>
>
>
> Additional repositories I don't want to take over my system, I manage
> with pins 100 <= P < 500, in the order of priority. The following
> example allows me to have e.g. some packages from backports and some
> from chimaera on my beowulf system, without having to edit the pins
> for every newly installed "custom" version and its dependencies.
> Updates and dependencies get installed as usual and the packages from
> backports will not be upgraded to chimaera:
>
>     Package: *
>     Pin: release n=beowulf-backports
>     Pin-Priority: 150

>     
>     Package: *
>     Pin: release n=chimaera
>     Pin-Priority: 140

>
> libre Grüße,
> Florian



Or to say it differently: Like this I can just run

$ apt install -t chimaera ripgrep

and forget about it.