Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007

Is it possible to temporarily disable a repository? If so, how?

I'm using ffmpeg from debian-multimedia repository, but I want to use the version from official Debian lenny repository instead temporarily. What's the easiest way of doing that?

thanks

Ref:

$ apt-cache policy ffmpeg
ffmpeg:
  Installed: 3:20070719-0.0
  Candidate: 3:20070719-0.0
  Version table:
 *** 3:20070719-0.0 0
        600 http://debian-multimedia.gnali.org testing/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.cvs20070307-6 0
        600 http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca lenny/main Packages
         50 http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca unstable/main Packages

% apt-get -t lenny install ffmpeg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
ffmpeg is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1126 not upgraded.

apt-get install ffmpeg/lenny

apt-get install ffmpeg=0.cvs20070307-6