[DOC] apt preferences trick

Bug #984405 reported by Sean O'Connell
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Percona Server moved to https://jira.percona.com/projects/PS
Fix Released
Medium
Hrvoje Matijakovic
5.1
Fix Released
Undecided
Hrvoje Matijakovic
5.5
Fix Released
Medium
Hrvoje Matijakovic

Bug Description

[In:Percona Server Documentation]

This is more for the apt repository section. While using apt-get to install packages from repo.percona.com, I have occasionally had to fight with dependencies being satisfied by the stock ubuntu packages rather than the Percona ones (esp. in the case where I am using the oneiric (11.10) packages with a precise (12.04) beta installation, probably not a completely supported configuration). To work around this, I have started using repository pinning to help tip the scales in favor of the Percona packages.

cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/00percona.pref
Package: *
Pin: release o=Percona Development Team
Pin-Priority: 1001

It might save someone else problems if this were identified as a possible work around.

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Stewart Smith (stewart) wrote :

Thanks so much for your contribution - I

Changed in percona-server:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Hrvoje Matijakovic (hrvojem)
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Stewart Smith (stewart) wrote :

I've assigned the bug to our Documentation Engineer who can go through the process of adding a snippet on pinning to our documentation.

In future, you're also welcome to directly edit our docs - they're in sphinx RST format in the source tree and a simple merge-proposal is all that is needed. If you're at all familiar with Wiki syntax formatting, you'll find RST familiar.

thanks again!

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Shahriyar Rzayev (rzayev-sehriyar) wrote :

Percona now uses JIRA for bug reports so this bug report is migrated to: https://jira.percona.com/browse/PS-1245

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