Re: Upgrade exim4 to bpo version??
palme@uni-wuppertal.de (Hubert Palme) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> it seems to be a new phenomenon in Debian:
>
> # apt-show-versions -u|sort
> exim4-base/sarge-backports upgradeable from 4.50-8sarge2 to 4.61-0bpo1
> exim4-config/sarge-backports upgradeable from 4.50-8sarge2 to 4.61-0bpo1
> exim4-daemon-light/sarge-backports upgradeable from 4.50-8sarge2 to 4.61-0bpo1
> exim4/sarge-backports upgradeable from 4.50-8sarge2 to 4.61-0bpo1
> eximon4/sarge-backports upgradeable from 4.50-8sarge2 to 4.61-0bpo1
> glibc-doc 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 newer than version in archive
> ...
> libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 newer than version in archive
> libc6-dev 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 newer than version in archive
> libdbd-pg-perl 1.42-0sarge1 newer than version in archive
> libperl5.8 5.8.4-8sarge4 newer than version in archive
> locales 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 newer than version in archive
> ...
> perl 5.8.4-8sarge4 newer than version in archive
> perl-base 5.8.4-8sarge4 newer than version in archive
> perl-modules 5.8.4-8sarge4 newer than version in archive
> perl-suid 5.8.4-8sarge4 newer than version in archive
> tar 1.14-2.2 newer than version in archive
> #
>
> Particularly annoyimg: exim4 wants to be upgraded to the bpo version. Is
> there any cogent reason to do this?
So it seems you have backports.org in your sources.list. How does your
/etc/apt/preferences look like?
> Does anyone know why this now happens so often? Have all those
> packages been repacked for r2 with a lower version number? (why?) Does
> it make sense to "downgrade"?
The libc6 thing seems to be a different issue. Currently, according to
my apt-cache policy output, 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 is the version in sarge,
it came in with the point release and is needed to get current timezone
data. If your system thinks it's not in the archive, maybe you've
removed the sarge lines from your sources.list? That would also explain
why it wants to upgrade exim to the (supposedly) second-best, the
sarge-backports.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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