I'm running Debian Wheezy on a Raspberry Pi and want to have both the Raspbian repo at http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ (for the OS) and the RPi Foundation repo at http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/ (for the kernel and the firmware).
The problem is that the Foundation repo ships a newer version of libpixman-1-0, which breaks VLC build - so I want to use APT pinning to pin every package from the Foundation repo except raspberrypi-bootloader,rpi-update and raspi-config. In apt-cache policy libpixman-1-0, the output is as follows:
libpixman-1-0:
Installed: 0.32.6-3
Candidate: 0.33.1+git20140627-c37ff5-rpi1rpi1
Version table:
0.33.1+git20140627-c37ff5-rpi1rpi1 0
500 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/ wheezy/main armhf Packages
*** 0.32.6-3 0
500 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ testing/main armhf Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
The output from apt-cache policy is (truncated):
500 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/ wheezy/main armhf Packages
release o=Raspberry Pi Foundation,n=wheezy,l=Raspberry Pi Foundation,c=main
origin archive.raspberrypi.org
500 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ testing/main armhf Packages
release o=Raspbian,a=testing,n=jessie,l=Raspbian,c=main
origin mirrordirector.raspbian.org
In theory, this block in /etc/apt/preferences.d/01-rpi should disable all except the three mentioned packages:
Package: *
Pin: o=Raspberry Pi Foundation,n=wheezy,l=Raspberry Pi Foundation,c=main
Pin-Priority: -1
Package: raspberrypi-bootloader
Pin: o=Raspberry Pi Foundation,n=wheezy,l=Raspberry Pi Foundation,c=main
Pin-Priority: 999
Package: raspi-config
Pin: o=Raspberry Pi Foundation,n=wheezy,l=Raspberry Pi Foundation,c=main
Pin-Priority: 999
Package: rpi-update
Pin: o=Raspberry Pi Foundation,n=wheezy,l=Raspberry Pi Foundation,c=main
Pin-Priority: 999
The problem is that this does not work due to the spaces in the pin name - apt-cache policy drops a warning:
W: Did not understand pin type o=Raspberry
How do I escape this space? I already tried wrapping it in single and double quotes as well as prepending a backslash, it did not work.
