I'd like to have your advice on yet another pinning problem that hit me recently. I've been through man apt_preferences
several times, and I can't find anything wrong in what I did.
I was having kernel panics in Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE), when I decided that I wanted to use packages from Debian Wheezy to get a newer kernel that could fix them.
I decided to try with pinning. The plan was to add a deb source for wheezy, and pin it with a very small priority, so that Wheezy packages would be installed only if explicitly requested for. Then, I would install the kernel-image from Wheezy.
I added this source:
deb http://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/debian wheezy main contrib non-free
And this pin:
Explanation: Disable Wheezy
Package: *
Pin: origin "ftp.uninett.no"
Pin-Priority: 1
But didn't work. I tried several other approaches like:
Explanation: Disable Wheezy
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,n=wheezy
Pin-Priority: 1
or even
Explanation: Disable Wheezy
Package: *
Pin: release n=wheezy
Pin-Priority: 1
No matter what, and even with negative priorities, Wheezy packages still had the same priority (500) as the LMDE's, and they were preferred to LMDE's since they were newer.
Can you see anything that I missed so far?
PS: If you're interested in the specific panic problem, you can read the full story here
/etc/apt/preferences.d/*
? The answers here might be relevant: serverfault.com/questions/357052/how-can-i-apt-pin-stablepreferences.d
, but maybe it pointed me to the right direction: there is apreferences
file that I had overlooked. I'll look into that, thanks a bunch!