Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 02:38:46AM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote:
> --- Willie Wonka <floydstestemail@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote:
> > > you can just say apt-get update
> > > and then apt-get install hdparm and it will install hdparm and upgrade
> > > all the packages that hdparm depends on and none else.
>
> > Ok...Great -- will do
>
> Ok...So after I performed the actual upGRADE;
>
> ~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
>
> I do this
>
> ~$ sudo apt-get install hdparm
>
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> hdparm is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>
> So obviously I'm still at v6.1, rather than 6.6 (the one I want)
>
> So...I try this (after reading the 'man apt_preferences' pages) and trying to
> understand how to make "pinning" work for me...
>
> ~$ sudo apt-get install hdparm/testing
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Selected version 6.6-1 (Debian:testing) for hdparm
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
>
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> hdparm: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6) but 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 is to be
> installed
> E: Broken packages
>
> How can I get hdparm v6.6 installed? It depends on atleast libc6 2.3.6-6...I
> suspect my "testing" pinning entries within /etc/apt/preferences are of too low
> a priority?? ...or maybe I should/can install libc6 2.3.6-6 *also* - on it's
> own?
> I understand the need for APT to work the way it does : For ex; Suppose libc6
> 2.3.6-6 also has other unmet dependencies -- this can quickly turn into a big
> mess. I understand that. What would be the correct "debian" way to proceed?
well, i havent tried that, though i use backports.org with pinning on
2 machines...
most likely its held back because of some dependencies...
start aptitude and try to install it...
that way it will install and to recieve automatic updates in the future,
write down the dependencies and pin them to...
otherwise apt-get will refuse to install automatically
yours
albert
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Albert Dengg <a_d@gmx.at>
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