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Fix backports pinning. #7

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taoeffect opened this issue Nov 6, 2014 · 1 comment
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Fix backports pinning. #7

taoeffect opened this issue Nov 6, 2014 · 1 comment

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@taoeffect
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Some packages should be installed from backports or unstable. Nginx is a good candidate, since the version in stable is ancient.

However, as per our experiments installing emacs24-nox from backports, we need to make sure that we have the right pinning, otherwise the installation seems to not work. The pin should be equivalent to whatever is the default for stable (I think) to fix this.

Empress can copy over a file into /etc/apt/preferences.d to enforce this.

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bgw commented Nov 6, 2014

You don't need to set pinning for backports:

All backports are deactivated by default (i.e. the packages are pinned to 100 by using ButAutomaticUpgrades: yes in the Release files.

emacs24-nox only had issues because the test server had mixed packages from unstable.

At this point, I'm thinking it might actually be best to remove the "niceties" stuff, since this is email focused. Same with removing the "default user". If someone wants to set that up, they should do it themselves or with a different script.

@bgw bgw closed this as completed Nov 6, 2014
@bgw bgw added the wontfix label Nov 6, 2014
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