Comments on: Priorities for APT repositories (debian-based distributions) http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/priorities-for-apt-repositories-debian-based-distributions/ bapoumba's blog Thu, 23 May 2013 11:44:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: bapoumba http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/priorities-for-apt-repositories-debian-based-distributions/#comment-2176 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:41:07 +0000 http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/priorities-for-apt-repositories-debian-based-distributions/#comment-2176 It did work when I wrote the post, I used it. It was a while ago, and I switched computers and upgraded since then. I have not used it recently, I’ll check, thanks.

]]> By: Simon http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/priorities-for-apt-repositories-debian-based-distributions/#comment-2175 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:18:52 +0000 http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/priorities-for-apt-repositories-debian-based-distributions/#comment-2175 I’ve been trying to use this method, but I’m somewhat disconcerted by the fact that the output of apt-cache policy does not reflect contents /etc/apt/preferences …

Does this actually work?

]]> By: bapoumba http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/priorities-for-apt-repositories-debian-based-distributions/#comment-342 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:40:00 +0000 http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/priorities-for-apt-repositories-debian-based-distributions/#comment-342 @ BrokenCrystal, it’s a feature offered by wp.com: http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/how-do-i-post-source-code/
based on a Google Code project by Alex Gorbatchev:
http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/

]]> By: BrokenCrystal http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/priorities-for-apt-repositories-debian-based-distributions/#comment-338 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:08:00 +0000 http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/priorities-for-apt-repositories-debian-based-distributions/#comment-338 How did you get that code displayed like that? I would like to do that on my Ubuntu page… (The numbered lines with the menu above the code)

Thanks,
BrokenCrystal

]]> By: bapoumba http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/priorities-for-apt-repositories-debian-based-distributions/#comment-323 Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:05:36 +0000 http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/priorities-for-apt-repositories-debian-based-distributions/#comment-323 Yes, fixed, thanks :)

]]> By: Marius Scurtescu http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/priorities-for-apt-repositories-debian-based-distributions/#comment-322 Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:14:29 +0000 http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/priorities-for-apt-repositories-debian-based-distributions/#comment-322 Just to make sure, the preferences file mentioned above is at:
/etc/apt/preferences
and not at:
/etc/preferences

Right?

Great tip, thanks.

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