Re: The future of the amd64 port

[cbergmann@acm.org]

Hi Olleg,

I have just stumbled across a similar (the same?) problem.

I am running Sarge with addition of some Etch packages. After switching 
sources.list from

"http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian/ etch main contrib non-free"

to

"http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free",

aptitude wants to install about 20 packages from Sarge 3.1r0 again in the 
identical version to that already installed. Worst of all, after reinstalling 
these packages, aptitude keeps repeating the request to reinstall with every 
run!

So, here seems to be a bug in package management. Interestingly, all packages 
affected have one thing in common: their versions are identical in 
Sarge/Stable and Etch/Testing.

It looks like Aptitude is believing that these packages are installed from 
Etch and therefore tries to update them to the newest version (I use pinning 
to stay with Sarge except for those packages I added from Etch). However, as 
the packages installed from Etch are identical to those from Sarge, Aptitude 
goes through this process over and over.

Regards Clemens

On Wednesday 26 April 2006 10:41, Olleg Samoylov wrote:
> I have server with etch debian. After I changed source list to
> debian.org many packages want upgrade to the same version. Is there any
> tricks to prevent this?

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