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Apt pinning the Percona Server for MySQL 8.4 packages

Pinning allows you to stay on a release and get packages from a different version. In some cases, you can pin selected packages and avoid accidentally upgrading all the packages.

The pinning takes place in the preference file. To pin a package, set the Pin-Priority to higher numbers.

Make a new file /etc/apt/preferences.d/00percona.pref. For example, add the following to the preference file:

Package: 
Pin: release o=Percona Development Team
Pin-Priority: 1001

For more information about the pinning, you can check the official debian wiki.

Last update: 2023-10-26