[Gnumed-devel] re: newest apt preferences and apt-cache policy results (suitable for lenny)

[Andreas Tille]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, James Busser wrote:

> The new version of the preferences file fixes these two problems. 
> Unfortunately the Package field seems to understand neither wildcards nor 
> regular expressions and thus the other packages had to be added individually.

Yes.  This ia a *very* annoying constraint of this pinning - I hate it myself!

> While it is true we could omit the gnumed-specific pinning and instead (from 
> the command line) simply do
>  apt-get install -t testing gnumed-client
> a preferences file placed in /etc/apt/ on each worker's machine in a praxis 
> would allow an admin user (either a sudoer or someone trusted to know a 
> common root password for the praxis *desktop* machines) to update the gnumed 
> client by using Synaptic and that way not even have to go into a terminal 
> session.

Yes.

> If you are running lenny, try this preference file and then from a terminal 
> as sudo or root run
>         apt-cache policy
> and it will hopefully work as described :-)
>
> ==========================================
> Here is what you get if you pin only gnumed-client to testing:

As you described yourself correctly: You need to pin all gnumed-*
packages explicitely.

> PS to Andreas I never run as root without remembering your warning, I only 
> just created this VM and did not yet get my regular user added to sudoers :-)

;-))

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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