Proper use of pinning?
I'm setting up a machine which I would like to keep mostly stable
(sarge) packages. However, some packages such as Firefox or GAIM, I'd
like to run the newer versions. Reading up on the man pages and the
Debian manual has gotten me this far:
/etc/apt/sources.list
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| deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
| deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
|
| deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
| deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
|
| deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
| deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
|
| deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
| deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main
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/etc/apt/preferences
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| Package: *
| Pin: release a=stable
| Pin-Priority: 700
|
| Package: *
| Pin: release a=testing
| Pin-Priority: 650
|
| Package: *
| Pin: release a=unstable
| Pin-Priority: 600
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/etc/apt/apt.conf
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| APT::Default-Release "stable";
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aptitude update and then aptitude upgrade work great, updating my
local repository and no packages need to be upgraded. From the
manuals, my next step should be aptitude -t testing install firefox
gaim, however, I'm running into this problem:
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| laptop:/etc/apt# aptitude -t testing install gaim firefox
| Reading Package Lists... Done
| Building Dependency Tree
| Reading extended state information
| Initializing package states... Done
| Reading task descriptions... Done
| E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
| E: Unable to correct dependencies, some packages cannot be installed
| E: Unable to resolve some dependencies!
| Some packages had unmet dependencies. This may mean that you have
| requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
| distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
| or been moved out of Incoming.
|
| The following packages have unmet dependencies:
| firefox: Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0) but 2.6.4-3.1 is
installed and it is kept back.
| Depends: libxfixes3 but it is not installable
| Depends: libxinerama1 but it is not installable
| gaim: Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0) but 2.6.4-3.1 is installed
and it is kept back.
| Depends: libxfixes3 but it is not installable
| Depends: libxinerama1 but it is not installable
| Depends: libxss1 but it is not installable
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So I then tried a different approach:
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| laptop:/etc/apt# aptitude -f install gaim=1:1.5.0+1.5.1cvs20051015-4
| Reading Package Lists... Done
| Building Dependency Tree
| Reading extended state information
| Initializing package states... Done
| Reading task descriptions... Done
| E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
| E: Unable to correct dependencies, some packages cannot be installed
| E: Unable to resolve some dependencies!
| Some packages had unmet dependencies. This may mean that you have
| requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
| distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
| or been moved out of Incoming.
|
| The following packages have unmet dependencies:
| gaim: Depends: gaim-data (= 1:1.5.0+1.5.1cvs20051015-4) but it is
not installable
| Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.9.0) but 1.8.0-4 is installed.
| Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6) but 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 is installed.
| Depends: libcairo2 (>= 1.0.2-2) but it is not installable
| Depends: libgcrypt11 (>= 1.2.2) but 1.2.0-11.1 is installed.
| Depends: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.10.0) but 2.6.4-1 is installed.
| Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0) but 2.6.4-3.1 is installed.
| Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.12.1) but 1.8.1-1 is installed.
| Depends: libxfixes3 but it is not installable
| Depends: libxinerama1 but it is not installable
| Depends: libxss1 but it is not installable
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Where am I going wrong here?
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Clinton V. Weiss
cvweiss@gmail.com
http://www.clintonweiss.com
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