[SOLVED] apt pinning problems

[berglin]

Hi,

I'm having problems configuring pinning for APT, when I use apt-cache policy to review the policies I see that the "release" line is missing.

I have this working on one machine and I have copied the preferences file so that they are exactly the same.
It looks like this:

Package: *
Pin: release n=common
Pin-Priority: 300

Working machine:
apt-cache policy
Package files:
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
release a=now
300 local-192-removed-due-to-filtering common/all Packages
release o=Mine,a=common,n=common,l=My Automatic updater,c=all
origin local-192-removed-due-to-filtering

Faulty Machine:
apt-cache policy
"Package"-filer:
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
release a=now
500 local-192-removed-due-to-filtering common/all Packages
origin local-192-removed-due-to-filtering

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[berglin]

Ok, solved it myself.

Apparantly the release info isn't displayed if the repository isn't signed and if it's not displayed, pinning doesn't do anything.

By signing my repos it works correctly.