Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d

[Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de>]

Hi,
On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 19:35:59 +0100
Matthias Bodenbinder <matthias@bodenbinder.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a weird behaviour on one of my debian boxes. It is running Mint
> LMDE and the issue is the following:
> 
> I have several additional sources defined: debian testing, debian
> backports, etc. I have defined priorities for the repos so that testing
> has prio 300 and does not replace the stable packages automatically.
> That works fine if I do an "apt-get update" followed by an "apt-get
> dist-upgrade". No issue.
> 
> The issue only occurs directly after boot. Somehow there is an "apt-get
> update" excecuted during boot time and this is ignoring the repo
> priorities. If I do a "apt-get dist-upgrade" directly after boot it
> wants to upgrade all packages to the testing version ("1547 upgraded,
> 358 newly installed, 97 to remove and 36 not upgraded."). This is a
> mistake.
(...)
Just a shot in the dark:
maybe the apt-get update at boot time is done before a network connection
has been established? I noticed that this can lead to the exact behavior
you describe when pinning is in use. Apparently a bug in apt.

Regards

Michael

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