Hi,
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 12:13:30AM +0100, Matteo Semplice wrote:
> So I installed lenny on a brand new PC in December, installed openoffice
> 1:3.1.1-1~bpo50+1 (with "-t lenny-backports") and created the preferences
> file pinning all of lenny-backports to 200, as on the instructions page.
> (That is the only pin in preferences)
>
> Today I did an "aptitude safe-upgrade" and discovered that (again!) openoffice
> won't automatically upgrade to 1:3.1.1-11~bpo50+1 . Here is the situation:
[…]
> brembo:/etc/apt# aptitude install openoffice.org
[…]
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> libneon27-gnutls{a}
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> libneon27{u}
[…]
> So what's wrong? Why "aptitude install" does the job and "safe-upgrade"
> doesn't? Is it just because ttf-opensymbol needs and upgrade from the stable
> to the lenny-backports version? This puzzles me...
Yes, that's one reason. Pinning to 200 does not make apt(itude) upgrade
a new package from stable to backports.
Also, note that the upgrade causes a package to be removed.
*safe-*upgrade does not allow that.
HTH,
Sebastian
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