Re: pinning + apt-get vs aptitude
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:32:36AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> (on Sid) I pinned grub-legacy, to avoid going to grub2.
>
> Then when I do 'apt-get dist-upgrade' I see:
>
> The following packages have been kept back:
> grub
>
> and
>
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> ... grub-legacy ...
>
> but when I do 'aptitude full-upgrade' I see:
>
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> ... grub-legacy{a} ...
>
> and
>
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> ... grub-pc{a} ...
>
> So why does aptitude pay no attention to my pin?
>
High pin scores can be thrown off, even without high-scoring dependency
issues, if there are more than two releases involved.
This explains better than I could:
http://www.argon.org/~roderick/apt-pinning.html
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Kind Regards,
Freeman
http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/
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