Re: Cannot install from sarge-backports

[backports@itmaze.com.au]

Either my question is so obvious that nobody sees the need to answer, in 
which case, could somebody please point out the obvious, because it's 
still not working for me. Google, #debian and bugtrack did not provide 
answers to my research.

Or, my question is so hard that nobody knows the answer, and I don't 
think I'm that smart.


backports@itmaze.com.au wrote:

> Hi all, been hunting to find out how to install a package from backports
> with testing and unstable sources also in my sources.list.
>
> The following command:
>
>    sudo apt-get -t sarge-backports install openoffice.org
>
>
> Gives me this error:
>
>    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>      openoffice.org: Depends: openoffice.org-base (> 2.0.1) but it is
>    not going to be installed
>    E: Broken packages
>
>
> My sources.list says:
>
>    deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ sarge-backports main
>    deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
>    deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
>    deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
>    deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian testing main contrib non-free
>    deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian-security testing/updates main
>    contrib non-free
>
>
> My apt-preferences says:
>
>    Package: *
>    Pin: release a=testing
>    Pin-Priority: -1
>
>    Package: *
>    Pin: release a=unstable
>    Pin-Priority: -1
>
>    Package: *
>    Pin: release a=sarge-backports
>    Pin-Priority: -1
>
>
> The output for:
>
>    sudo apt-get -o Debug::pkgPolicy=true -s install -t sarge-backports
>    openoffice.org | grep backports
>
> Is this:
>
>    Prio of
>
> /var/lib/apt/lists/www.backports.org_debian_dists_sarge-backports_main_binary-i386_Packages 
>
>    990
>    Prio of
>
> /var/lib/apt/lists/www.backports.org_debian_dists_sarge-backports_main_binary-i386_Packages 
>
>    990
>
> (The rest of the output are priority 500 for stable, 100 for installed
> and -1 for the rest.)
>
> My understanding is that I should be able to specify the source with the
> "-t {sourcename}" and that any package that gets installed will also
> install any dependencies from that same source.
>
> What am I missing?