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Make 'Origin' and 'Label' configurable for local repositories #29
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I think it's a good idea. Even though whole idea of |
if you have multiple package providers with even multiple incompatible major version for a package, then you need to pin. A good testcase of this behavior is at apt.puppetlabs.com. Try to get the 2.7.x version of puppet and run |
For example, you're trying to pull version packet
Aptly would pull package Would that help? |
That would solve that specific use case. But lead to a lot of special repos conflicting with currently existing debian repository specific pinnings (e.g. take it from wheezy, but allow updates from wheezy-backports) A bit more background: Actually we (me and @bracki) are using already debmirror to get consistent snapshots + staged system package rollout from it. We are now trying to replace the tooling for various package sources and the tooling for generating custom package trees with aptly. While iterating fast, we want to maintain a custom package source (maintained via aptly) and update from there. Later when the package is feature complete and becomes widely used, it moves into regular staged rollouts. So the custom package source ( |
Thanks for the explanation I'll put this to next release (0.5). |
Done in |
Hi,
it would be great if
Origin
andLabel
would be configurable like in reprepro or freight.This is quite useful for APT pinning.
Cheers,
Jan
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