Re: keep specific versions of packages
--- Giacomo Mulas <gmulas@ca.astro.it> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Dec 2006, Francesco Pietra wrote:
>
> > I want to avoid any modification from apt-get
> commands
> > to
> >
> > mpqc 2.3.1-0.2
>
> Ciao Francesco. There are many ways to achieve what
> you want. The simplest
> one is just to put the mpqc packages in "hold"
> state. You can do that using
> any of the frontends (e.g. from dselect to synaptic
> just to name two). This
> will prevent _any_ automatic upgrade of mpqc. You
> will still be able to
> upgrade it, if needed, using a explicit command, but
> not with a general
> upgrade of the system.
I have no gui on amd64 etch. Aptitude does not
recognize the installation of mpqc 2.3.1-0.2, which
was carried out with dpkg without uninstalling mpqc
2.3.1-1. At least not on "science", where it
recognizes only mpqc-support 2.3.1-1 from apt-get
previous installation.
dselect recognizes the mpqc 2.3.1-0.2 installation and
I could place "H" on that. My only remaining concern
(I am not in a hurry to command a "apt-get" upgrade)
is about the dependencies, which are shown by
"apt-show mpqc". I have not checked them against those
for mpqc 2.3.1-1 still existing on debian
repositories, though libint was surely expressely
introduced for the new version 0.2. Therefore, is
placing "H" for mpqc 2.3.1-1 0.2 enough to prevent it
being touched during "apt-get upgrade" if the same
version appears on debian repositiries (I fear that
the new version on debian repositories will not be
compiled for libint, because this serves very special
procedures only). Moreover, simply placing "H" on the
mpqc package does prevent upgradind dependencies, or
is that immaterial to mpqc functioning?
This clarification will serve also for any future
similar case.
Thanks a lot
francesco
>
> Another option: if you obtained those packages from
> a repository which
> includes "release" information, you can use the
> "pin" functionality of apt
> to force apt-get to always obtain a well-defined
> revision. This is achieved
> by adding "stanzas" to the file
> /etc/apt/preferences, such as
>
> Package: mpqc*
> Pin: release a=whateveritisinthatrepository
> Pin-Priority: higherthandefault
>
> where you should substitute
> "whateveritisinthatrepository" with the release
> name for packages in the repository you use, and
> "higherthandefault" with a
> number higher than the default and than any other
> general matching stanza
> (if you have others), to avoid your mpqc packages to
> be taken from another
> source. You should find more information about how
> to handle this
> functionality in the /usr/share/doc/Debian/apt-howto
> directory. Read it,
> it's worth the time you will spend with it, since
> you will probably save you
> quite a bit more time in solving trivial problems in
> the future. If
> necessary, install some apt-howto package (I think
> there is also one in
> Italian).
>
> If you compile your mpqc packages yourself and did
> not set up a full-fledged
> repository with release fields for it, you will
> probably be better off with
> the first option, i.e. put the packages on hold, but
> I also offer you a
> small suggestion from my own experience in
> maintaining locally a number of
> backported packages: when compiling your own
> packages, edit the
> debian/changelog to bump up your compiled version
> from the currently
> available one you are tracking (from unstable,
> perhaps?). I usually just add
> a ".1" to the version number. Then install your
> local packages and put them
> on hold. This has 2 effects: the first one, as
> explained above, they will
> not be automatically upgraded; the second one, they
> will not even show up in
> the list of packages for which a newer version is
> available, until this is
> really the case, i.e. when a new version is release
> in debian. Therefore, it
> will not be automatically upgraded but you will know
> there was a new version
> released, possibly with bug fixes, and you will
> decide whether it's worth
> recompiling a new local version with those bug
> fixes.
>
> Have fun
> Giacomo
>
> P.S.: Buon Natale (in ritardo) e felice anno nuovo
>
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