Re: L1 mini iso. Duplicate packages in sid and unreleased.

[Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz>]

On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 13:18:23 +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 07:04:15PM +1300, Philip Charles wrote:
> > >     There are ~180 hurd packages duplicated in unreleased and sid.
> > >
> > > 131 of these are obsolete packages in unreleased, ie the duplicates
> > > in sid are newer.
> > >
> > > I have generated a list of these packages.  Anyone want to use it
> > > to remove the offending packags from unreleased?
> >
> > Yes, please post them; I think at least Guillem can get them removed
> > from unreleased.
> >
> > At this point, I think APT-pinning to prefer unreleased over unstable
> > makes trouble than it has benefits, so /etc/apt/preferences should be
> > adjusted.
> 
> I added support to mini-dak to automatically remove obsolete packages
> from unreleased long time ago. I'll check later on why it's not doing
> that anymore.
> 
> regards,
> guillem
> 

Thanks.  It will make life easier for me.

Phil.

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