Re: apt denies upgrade to KDE3? Help :..(
> O.k. here is the result:
> # apt-cache policy kmail
> kmail:
> Installed: 4:2.2.2-14.1
> Candidate: 4:2.2.2-14.1
> Version Table:
> 4:3.0.4-1 0
> 500 http://download.uk.kde.org woody/ Packages
> *** 4:2.2.2-14.1 0
> 900 http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main Packages
> -10 http://ftp.de.debian.org sid/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 4:2.2.2-14.0woody1 0
> 500 http://security.debian.org woody/updates/main Packages
>
> Is there any way to see, what pinning might be entered for a specific apt
> source? Package pinning to specific packages is not possible, since they
> have nothing common in their names.
> Anything I could enter as archive name (a=), origin name (o=), component
> name (c=) or label (l=) for that KDE3 mirror?
Your problem is that the testing debian archive has a pin value of 900 and
download.uk.ke.org has a pin value of 500. So apt-get will always try to
fetch the kde packages on testing and not where you want.
Put something like that in your preferences file :
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 333
that will lower the pin value for the testing archive and make everything
sweet as milk. Try ap-get update and apt-cache policy kmail to see if it
works.
By the way, why do you mix Sid, Sarge and Woody ? It looks to me like a recipe
for problems. Go for an all-sid box or an all-woody box. When Kde 3.x enters
the Debian archive you can go back to Sarge. But before it happens, I don't
see the point of your configuration ?
Grüss,
Charles
--
cmiramon@kde-france.org
http://www.kde-france.org
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