[H-GEN] Apt pinning - Is there a guru in the house?
Russell Stuart
russell-humbug at stuart.id.au
Wed Jul 1 21:50:05 EDT 2009
On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 02:17 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Globs aren't supported in the Package: field, just package names or "*". So:
I was hoping you would reply. Awesome answer. You had a blog entry
describing how to use equivs to manage the packages on a machine, didn't
you?
The real problem here is apt_preferences man page. There are 2000
words, none of which manage to say what syntax Pin: accepts. How hard
is it to write:
"Pin: package ...", matches the packages listed. Wildcards are not
supported in the package names. Alternatively "Pin: *" matches
all packages.
Its the same for the rest of the keywords. Pages and pages of waffle
using examples is not a substitute a concise description of what it
actually does. It's not all bad though. He style would fit right in
with the GNU Info team.
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