On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 09:57:08AM +0100, Dominik George wrote:
> >Some months ago I installed the backported nvidia drivers.
> >Recently there was an update to stable that left me here,
> >where I have a backports version that is now lower than the stable
> >version
> > % dpkg --compare-versions 390.87-8~bpo9+1 lt 390.87-8~deb9u1
>
> imho this is a mistake by the person who updated stable and was missed
> by the stable release managers. The stable update suffix should be
> +deb9u1, not ~deb9u1.
Not necessarily, ~deb9u1 is a perfectly fine suffix for stable updates,
and used in many packages; it all depends on the kind of update that is
being done.
If this was done correctly enough, 390.87-8~deb9u1 should correctly
supersed 390.87-8~bpo9+1 and differing only in the changelog, however
this is not true, I believe due to changes that were done in the
stretch-backports git branch, and then due to merges carried over;
changes that have not been reflected in the stretch update.
That said, even looking at the diff between the two versions I can't
imagine anything actually causing trouble for you, backports user.
What is the problem that you are effectively seeing, except "the version
is greater", that is not a issue at all?
> > % cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/nvidia
> > Explanation: Set priority higher than default (500) to ensure installation
> > Package: nvidia* *-nvidia libnvidia* libegl* libgl* glx-* update-glx
> > Pin: release a=stretch-backports
> > Pin-Priority: 800
> >
> >
> > Now aside from apt-cache ignoring my attempts at policy setting,
You want to either set that priority to >= 991 (maybe even >= 1000), or
decrease the one coming from stretch to < 100.
But, as I said, I fail to see the problem.
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