Dear Helpers!
I have a mixed system installed, mepis-7.0 being its base.
Problem:
I want to install a program through apt. I perform a search and choose the packages I want to have installed. Having many repositories enabled, a lot of versions are available. I obviously want to choose which one is installed.
Desired Solution:
Instead of forcing the version of every package with apt-get -t, I would like to create a hierarchy of repositories. I'd then select the program I'd like to install and its version (apt-get install PROGRAM=VERSION), and the system goes through the repositories checking the dependencies and chooses the highest source for each dependency, that satisfies all needs of the program, and other cross-dependencies.
Once this is implemented, it must work with a graphical package manager (don't care which one, as long as it works, I get the info I need, and have some freedom in customizing it) for convenience. After all it's for that sake, that we have repositories altogether.
What I thought might work:
I edited the /etc/apt/preferences file, adjusting the pinning and linked that file to var/lib/synaptic/preferences. I do not have a default release defined in the apt.conf. Is that the problem? I don't necessarily want it to install the default version, if a corresponding package exists in that repository.
Thanks in advance,
baking-a-77