Re: apt-pinning

[Mika Suomalainen <mika.henrik.mainio@hotmail.com>]

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On 18.07.2012 11:31, Denis Witt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a machine with Wheezy installed, unfortunately I can't use
> PHP5.4 due to a third party script which isn't compatible yet.
> 
> So I added the Squeeze-Sources in my apt sources.list and
> installed PHP5.3 from Squeeze.
> 
> I also created the file "php" in /etc/apt/preferences.d/
> containing:
> 
> Package: php* Pin: release n=squeeze Pin-Priority: 900
> 
> Package: libapache2-mod-php5 Pin: release n=squeeze Pin-Priority:
> 900
> 
> But when I check the policy it doesn't seem to work:
> 
> apt-cache policy php5 php5: Installed: 5.3.3-7+squeeze13 Candidate:
> 5.4.4-2 Version table: 5.4.4-2 0 500
> ftp://mirror.manitu.net/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages ***
> 5.3.3-7+squeeze13 0 500 http://security.debian.org/
> squeeze/updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 
> 5.3.3-7+squeeze8 0 500 ftp://mirror.manitu.net/debian/ squeeze/main
> amd64 Packages
> 
> I tried to lower the priority for the wheezy packages:
> 
> Package: php* Pin: release n=wheezy Pin-Priority: -10
> 
> Package: libapache2-mod-php5 Pin: release n=wheezy Pin-Priority:
> -10
> 
> I also tried pinning to "Pin: version 5.3.*" but that didn't helped
> either.
> 
> To prevent upgrading I used echo "php-mail-mime hold" | dpkg 
> --set-selections etc. for now, but sooner or later I will have to
> run a apt-get dist-upgrade and it would be nice if I hasn't to
> upgrade first and do a rollback for PHP afterwards.
> 
> Thanks in advance. Bye.

Hi,

I think that you should replace "n=squeeze" with "a=squeeze" in
/etc/apt/preferences.d/php.

If that doesn't work, I don't know what works, but someone else might
know on this list.

PS. I didn't trim the original message, because I was unsure what I
can trim without removing anything important.

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Mika Suomalainen

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