Re: how to give priority for site with apt

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:15:42PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote:
> hi,
> I am looking for possibility to make priority for repository.
> In fact I have a local repository, when I want to install a package I
> want apt to check first in the local to install it from there if it
> exists.
> for example
> here is my sources.list:
> deb file:/opt/ R4.1_2/
> deb file:/opt/R4.1_1 etch main contrib
> deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free
>
> If a software (say lyx-1.5.1), exists in /opt/R4.1_2/ I want to
> install it from here and not from ftp.fr.debian.org/debian. where the
> version is the same of course.
>
> I haven't found info about priority in the apt doc????

Theoretically it should work like that. Please post the output of 'apt-cache policy lyx' (make sure it's a package you have in both repos).

Regards,
Andrei

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