Re: etch-backports strangeness
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 09:05:08AM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> I have cron-apt running on all of my systems (all are still running
> etch). I also use backports on several of them. This morning, however,
> I saw that on one of the machines that has backports in its
> sources.list, there were 374 packages slated for upgrade. Some were
> already using the backports version (e.g., devscripts) and others were
> not (e.g., mdadm).
>
> I have this stanza in my /etc/apt/preferences:
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=etch-backports
> Pin-Priority: 200
>
> What I do not understand is why hundreds of packages would be scheduled
> to upgrade, even when many of them are installed from the etch version,
> and not from the etch-backports version.
>
> Could someone hazard a guess as to what is going on?
Do you also have a pin for stable, and do you have sources.list entries
for lenny?
lenny became stable over the weekend, so if you were pinning 'stable'
high enough you'll get lenny packages as candidates, and you'll need to
tweak your pins.
Cheers,
Dominic.
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