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Re: Aptitude Error



On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 21:14, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
<bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote:
>> The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default
>>  release will keep the system tracked to, in this case, testing.
>
> Er, mostly.
>
> If there is a versioned dependency that can be satisfied from sid but not
> testing, you will get the package from sid.  This shouldn't happen given the
> way testing is managed, unless you installed at least one package from sid.
>
>> How did the packages  from sid get installed in the first place? If you're
>> tracking something, you have to give it an explicit "aptitude install -t
>>  sid <package>" command, right?
>
> With the official testing and sid repositories that should be true.  It would
> only happen if someone manually fixed up testing and did it wrong.
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You could find what all packages from sid are installed in your system by
apt-show-versions |  grep unstable


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