{"id":307,"date":"2011-01-17T18:28:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T18:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2013-01-10T02:39:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T02:39:27","slug":"pinning-a-package-example-for-debianubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/2011\/pinning-a-package-example-for-debianubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinning a package example for Debian\/Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted backuppc to install from unstable, so I added the following:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\/etc\/apt\/preferences.d:<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \" >Package: *\r\nPin: release o=Debian,a=squeeze\r\nPin-Priority: 600\r\n\r\nPackage: *\r\nPin: release o=Debian,a=unstable\r\nPin-Priority: 400\r\n\r\nPackage: backuppc\r\nPin: release o=Debian,a=unstable\r\nPin-Priority: 800<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Quick explanation:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Moving &#8220;squeeze&#8221; (my base installation) above 500 keeps it as priority default installation.<br \/>\n&#8211; Having unstable below 500 means it has lower priority of anything already installed.<br \/>\n&#8211; Then pinning backuppc package to the top so it&#8217;ll get installed with unstable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted backuppc to install from unstable, so I added the following: \/etc\/apt\/preferences.d: Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=squeeze Pin-Priority: 600 Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=unstable Pin-Priority: 400 Package: backuppc Pin: release o=Debian,a=unstable Pin-Priority: 800 Quick explanation: &#8211; Moving &#8220;squeeze&#8221; (my base installation) above 500 keeps it as priority default installation. &#8211; Having unstable below 500 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}