Re: apt-get dist-upgrade wants to remove non-installed packages
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
I'm currently using XFree86 4.2 and I don't want to upgrade the X server
and X applications for the moment, because of bugs. I've added the
following to my /etc/apt/preferences file:
Package: xfree86-common
Pin: version 4.2.*
Pin-Priority: 950
Package: xserver-common
Pin: version 4.2.*
Pin-Priority: 950
Package: xserver-xfree86
Pin: version 4.2.*
Pin-Priority: 950
to stay with 4.2 (I don't know if there is a better solution).
But apt-get dist-upgrade -s says:
[...]
Remv x-window-system-core (4.3.0-7 Debian:testing)
[...]
whereas only 4.2.1-12.1 is currently installed. Is it a bug in
apt-get or what...?
I don't understand it either. I have as only entry in preferences:
Package: *
Pin: origin schuldei.org
Pin-Priority: 999
My X packages come from there:
deb /http://www.schuldei.org/debian/bruby/ ./
Yet, here too, apt-get dist-upgrade -s gets:
[...]
Inst x-window-system [4.3.0-0pre1v3] (4.3.0-7 Debian:testing)
[...]
But apt-cache policy gets:
Package Files:
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
release a=now
500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Packages
release v=3.0,o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian-Security,c=updates/contrib
origin security.debian.org
500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
release v=3.0,o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian-Security,c=updates/main
origin security.debian.org
500 /http://www.schuldei.org ./ Packages
origin www.schuldei.org
500 file: sarge/contrib Packages
release o=Debian,a=testing,l=Debian,c=contrib
[...]
The apt that is installed is:
ii apt 0.5.23 Advanced front-end for dpkg
However, I did this very thing on the 29th of March and everything went
OK. I have a backup of just before that upgrade ;-) gotten burned once
too often. I will restore it and see what apt that had...
Can anybody shed light on this?
Hugo
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