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| author | Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com> | 2020-01-17 13:18:03 +0100 |
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| committer | Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com> | 2020-01-17 13:24:39 +0100 |
| commit | 450af26202424bef33e0c58f3f99dfd0c21e7297 (patch) | |
| tree | 633055b6cd785a0211d64767ca90dce50faa6fd9 /doc/apt_preferences.5.xml | |
| parent | 8ebabf3d9026d1a738a4e8988e168902af7446e3 (diff) | |
policy: Implement pinning by source package
This implements the src: syntax inside policy, allowing you to
pin by source package. This by default only pins the native
architecuture, use src:pkg:any to pin for all architectures
in your cache.
Closes: #166032
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apt_preferences.5.xml | 21 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml b/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml index cac9a96e1..dacf3dc21 100644 --- a/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml @@ -303,7 +303,28 @@ a &glob; expression in itself. </para> </refsect2> +<refsect2><title>Pinning by source package</title> +<para>APT supports pinning by source packages. To pin by a source package, +prepend "src:" to the package name.</para> +<para>For example, to pin all binaries produced by the apt source package +of this APT's version to 990, you can do:</para> +<programlisting> +Package: src:apt +Pin: version &apt-product-version; +Pin-Priority: 990 +</programlisting> + +<para>Source package pinning can be combined with regular expressions and +glob patterns, and can also take a binary architecture.</para> +<para>For example, let's pin all binaries for all architectures produced by +any source package containing apt in its name to 990:</para> +<programlisting> +Package: src:*apt*:any +Pin: version * +Pin-Priority: 990 +</programlisting> +</refsect2> |