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Re: dselect strangeness re. "pinning" and openssl security update



Am Sam, 2002-09-14 um 20.18 schrieb Ralf G. R. Bergs:
> [Cc to pkg maintainer]
> 
> 
> Hi folx,
> 
> I had a strange problem with one machine I wanted to update in order to 
> install the fixed openssl. No matter what I did it wouldn't offer me 0.9.6g-
> 0.woody.1, but only the regular (already installed) "stable" version.
> 
> Since I was using the "pinning" feature of APT I temporarily removed the 
> "testing" deb sources from my sources.list -- to no avail. I then removed my 
> apt.conf file that looked like this:
> 
>     APT::Default-Release "stable";
> 
> Only then was I able to install the updated openssl version.
> 
> How come? Is that a problem with the fixed version of openssl not containing a 
> "stable" tag?

> Suggestions anyone?!

proposed-updates is not maked as stable. So if you pin to stable you
only get stable.

Christoph

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