From 10df254bd756cea401e2564d465bbb4a99ee8e9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 17:58:35 +0200
Subject: add "NotAutomatic: yes" handling, thanks Osamu Aoki (Closes: #490347)

---
 doc/apt_preferences.5.xml | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'doc/apt_preferences.5.xml')

diff --git a/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml b/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml
index 5f8f9fded..abcf56744 100644
--- a/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml
+++ b/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml
@@ -97,6 +97,12 @@ APT::Default-Release "stable";
 algorithm to set the priorities of the versions of a package.  Assign:
 
 <variablelist>
+<varlistentry>
+<term>priority 1</term>
+<listitem><simpara>to the versions coming from archives which in their <filename>Release</filename>
+files are marked as "NotAutomatic: yes" like the debian experimental archive.</simpara></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
 <varlistentry>
 <term>priority 100</term>
 <listitem><simpara>to the version that is already installed (if any).</simpara></listitem>
@@ -116,7 +122,9 @@ algorithm to set the priorities of the versions of a package.  Assign:
 
 <para>If the target release has not been specified then APT simply assigns
 priority 100 to all installed package versions and priority 500 to all
-uninstalled package versions.</para>
+uninstalled package versions, expect versions coming from archives which
+in their <filename>Release</filename> files are marked as "NotAutomatic: yes" -
+these versions get the priority 1.</para>
 
 <para>APT then applies the following rules, listed in order of precedence,
 to determine which version of a package to install.
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