Taming ubuntu-mozilla-daily with Pin-Priority: 400

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 14, 2010

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“Taming ubuntu-mozilla-daily with Pin-Priority: 400

“I regularly use a package from the Ubuntu Daily Mozilla PPA.
Unfortunately the PPA also contains snapshot builds of Firefox 3.5
and XulRunner 1.9.1, which I want to keep at their standard Ubuntu
versions”.

“The Pinning Solution

“To make apt-get upgrading as painless as possible set a lower
Pin-Priority on the PPA, this will stop unwanted package versions
from installing. Once set, packages from the ubuntu-mozilla-daily
PPA will always lose in any contest with packages from other
repositories, even if they have a higher version.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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