Release Pinning Broken? (was Re: testing=sarge be careful with updates!)
On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:45:13 +0100
"Liam Ward" <liam@dv4.com> wrote:
> Just a quick note to anyone who wants to run woody and whose
> sources.list still refers to "testing".
>
> Testing is now pointing to "sarge" so you need to change testing to
> stable in sources.list if you want to stick with woody.
>
> I was baffled this morning when apt-get wanted to upgrade 106 packages
> until I realised my mistake. A good reason why automatic upgrading is a
> bad idea IMHO.
Did you buy chance have unstable and testing entries in your sources.list?
It would appear that the Debian archives are currently broken WRT to
pinning.
The archives are currently missing Contents files for the testing branch
and it's archs. I'm not positive, but I think this is breaking support
for pinning to a specific release. An "apt-get -s -u upgrade" shows that
apt wants to pull nearly 200 packages all from the unstable branch.
# apt-config dump
APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Default-Release "testing";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice unstable main contrib
deb http://archive.progeny.com/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.teleglobe.net/non-US/ unstable/non-US main contrib
non-free
deb-src http://archive.progeny.com/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://debian.teleglobe.net/non-US/ unstable/non-US main contrib
non-free
deb http://archive.progeny.com/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.direct.ca/linux/debian-non-US/ testing/non-US main
contrib non-free
deb-src http://archive.progeny.com/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://mirror.direct.ca/linux/debian-non-US/ testing/non-US main
contrib non-free
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Jamin W. Collins
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