Re: apt 0.6 in experimental
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 01:32:47PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> With apt 0.6.1, I have this in sources.list:
>
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experimental main contrib non-free
>
> I thought that apt was supposed to auto-pin experimental to not upgrade
> to packages in it automatically. However:
>
> joey@dragon:~>apt-cache policy diff
> diff:
> Installed: 2.8.1-6
> Candidate: 2.8.4-0.0
> Version Table:
> 2.8.4-0.0 0
> 500 http://http.us.debian.org ../project/experimental/main Packages
> *** 2.8.1-6 0
> 500 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> And indeed it wants to download diff and several other packages from
> experimental. I downgraded to apt 0.5.17, and it behaves the same. Am I
> wrong about the default experimental pinning?
OK, I can reproduce this. The problem is that it is looking for
experimental/binary-$(ARCH)/main/Release (which isn't downloaded) rather
than experimental/Release (which is). This might require some changes, but
is fixable.
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- mdz
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