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| author | Louise Crow <louise.crow@gmail.com> | 2012-09-24 15:01:53 +0100 |
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| committer | Louise Crow <louise.crow@gmail.com> | 2012-09-24 15:01:53 +0100 |
| commit | 2e0e8c434dbb71f5858f509f13f6986a0c1b0129 (patch) | |
| tree | adc1f2d7ae9da75b3a2be3d8ab06be5b5e161515 | |
| parent | e6d59c83066d2ff77da076b1d56da184295c82a1 (diff) | |
Add instructions about package pinning to the install doc.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/INSTALL.md | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/INSTALL.md b/doc/INSTALL.md index da72987af..aa9626afe 100644 --- a/doc/INSTALL.md +++ b/doc/INSTALL.md @@ -25,6 +25,18 @@ master branch (which always contains the latest stable release): git checkout master +# Package pinning + +You need to configure [apt-pinning](http://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences#Pinning-1) preferences in order to prevent packages being pulled from the debian testing distribution in preference to the stable distribution once you have added the testing repository as described below. + +In order to configure apt-pinning and to keep most packages coming from the Debian stable repository while installing the ones required from testing and the mySociety repository you need to run the following commands: + + echo "Package: *" >> /tmp/preferences + echo "Pin: release a=testing">> /tmp/preferences + echo "Pin-Priority: 50" >> /tmp/preferences + sudo cp /tmp/preferences /etc/apt/ + rm /tmp/preferences + # Install system dependencies These are packages that the software depends on: third-party software |