Re: APT Strange Behaviour (Priorities)
Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 04:48:36PM +0200, Marko Randjelovic <marel@sbb.rs> was heard to say:
>> Thanks, Daniel, for this helpful information.
>>
>> I just discovered another similar paradox. I tried to get source package for pidgin from backports.org. That repository
>> was explicitly pinned at 500 and testing at 290. But, look
>>
>> main:~# apt-get source pidgin
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree... Done
>> Need to get 13.2MB of source archives.
>> Get:1 http://ftp2.de.debian.org testing/main pidgin 2.4.3-1 (dsc) [1800B]
>> Get:2 http://ftp2.de.debian.org testing/main pidgin 2.4.3-1 (tar) [13.1MB]
>> Get:3 http://ftp2.de.debian.org testing/main pidgin 2.4.3-1 (diff) [59.0kB]
>> Fetched 13.2MB in 8m46s (25.0kB/s)
>> gpg: Signature made Wed 02 Jul 2008 07:21:28 PM CEST using DSA key ID B70E403B
>> gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
>> dpkg-source: extracting pidgin in pidgin-2.4.3
>> dpkg-source: unpacking pidgin_2.4.3.orig.tar.gz
>> dpkg-source: applying ./pidgin_2.4.3-1.diff.gz
>>
>> So, it is downloading from testing, although it has lower priority. How could I make it chose backports.org?
>
> I don't have time to check, but I bet that "source" is ignoring
> priorities. You should be able to select it explicitly with
> "apt-get source pidgin/etch-backports" or "apt-get source pidgin=<version>".
>
> Daniel
>
>
main:~# apt-get source pidgin/etch-backports
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for pidgin/etch-backports
main:~# apt-get source pidgin=2.3.1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for pidgin
main:~# apt-get source pidgin=2.3.1*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for pidgin
main:~# apt-get source pidgin=2.3*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for pidgin
main:~# apt-get source pidgin=2.3.1-2~bpo40+1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for pidgin
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