Re: apt-get update continues to push the same patches

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Chris DiVirgilio <divirg@umich.edu> writes:

> After running apt-get clean, the problem persists.  When you say
> "second source," I think you mean security.debian.org, not the
> testing branch of debian-amd64, right?  I commented that line out in

The second source with the package, whatever line that corresponds to
in your case.

> my sources.list and ran "apt-get clean; apt-get update; apt-get -s
> dist-upgrade"  This time the offending packages are gone, but I get a
> bunch of packages from the testing branch that i *know* are in the
> stable branch (apache-doc, for example).  I thought I was preventing
> that with 'APT::Default-Release "stable";'
>
> And why would removing the line for security.debian.org introduce a
> bunch of testing packages from debian-amd64?

Packages with the same version in stable and testing with a security
upload got the same (source) upload for security and for testing. The
amd64 buildd then rebuild the source for testing giving you a
different deb.

As to why your apt picks testing over stable check with apt-cache
policy for each package.

MfG
        Goswin

PS: Do you have apt from etch or sid? I think the security stuff
changed the ordering of sources to be used.