Re: Temporarily disable a repository

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 16:20:50 +0000, - Tong - wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to temporarily disable a repository?
> If so, how?
>
> I'm using ffmpeg from debian-multimedia repository, but I want to use the
> version from official Debian lenny repository instead temporarily. What's
> the easiest way of doing that?
>
> thanks
>
> Ref:
>
> $ apt-cache policy ffmpeg
> ffmpeg:
> Installed: 3:20070719-0.0
> Candidate: 3:20070719-0.0
> Version table:
> *** 3:20070719-0.0 0
> 600 http://debian-multimedia.gnali.org testing/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 0.cvs20070307-6 0
> 600 http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca lenny/main Packages
> 50 http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca unstable/main Packages
>
> % apt-get -t lenny install ffmpeg
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> ffmpeg is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1126 not upgraded.

Try

apt-get install ffmpeg/lenny

or

apt-get install ffmpeg=0.cvs20070307-6

If you want to change priorities for an entire archive then you probably have to use package pinning (see the manpage for apt_preferences).

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