Re: apt: pin: how to debug?

[kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)]

jgg@debian.org (Jason Gunthorpe)  wrote on 24.03.01 in <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.1010324153815.4623G-100000@wakko.deltatee.com>:

> On 25 Mar 2001, Brian May wrote:
>
> > Back to the original question: I would really like to be able to
> > get a list of where a package exists, and what priority each location
> > has. eg. (made up example, has no real life value):
>
> Sounds like a fine addition to apt-cache. Patch? :>

I've looked at the source, and got forcibly reminded why I can't stand  
C++. But even apart from that, doing a patch would need someone *far* more  
familiar with the source than I am. policy.h is rather unobvious.



By the way, is it just me misunderstanding something, or is it a bug that  
neither

        apt-get -t stable source apt

nor

        apt-get source apt/stable

do anything useful? (The first gives the testing version, the second finds  
nothing; apt=0.3.19 does work, however.)



And I think I realized why preferences wasn't doing what I wanted it to  
do.

Given: I want to mostly stay at testing, except if I explicitely install  
something from unstable, I usually want to keep that at unstable (say,  
debian-policy).

So, when a package I have installed does not exist in testing, but does  
exist in unstable, it will automatically upgrade to the unstable version.

Hmmm.

MfG Kai