Re: want pinning with examples to prevent unwanted package(s) from being installed
Dejan Jocic composed on 2017-08-31 08:51 (UTC+0200):
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> Over an hour I've been searching in vain, apparently using broken Google-fu, for
>> something using examples to explain how to prevent unwanted package(s) from
>> being installed via pinning when apt-mark's hold is being disregarded. Anyone
>> familiar with an URL that would do this?
>> In openSUSE, it's a simple process:
>> zypper al unwantedpackagename[version]
>> That's all there is to it, other than it also works with wildcards.
> Not sure that I understand, because man page gives enough examples.
To start with, the question "which man page" needed to be solved.
> Like:
> P < 0
> prevents the version from being installed
> So, for preventing some package to be installed:
> Package: somepackage
> Pin: origin ""
> Pin-Priority: -1
I never saw an example that wasn't part of a group that included multiple
release names, none with the null string for origin.
> That will prevent all packages with somepackage name to be installed, no
> matter of origin. In Pin section, you can use release instead, if you
> want to restrict just specific release, but that is all well explained
> in man page of apt_preferences with lots of examples.
Now that I see that apt_preferences is the relevant doc, I don't see it as
"well" explained. "The file" isn't given a name. There is no "file" that seems
applicable to locking anything in in /etc/apt/, though there is an empty
directory "/etc/apt/preferences.d/", which to me doesn't imply anything to do
with locking.
I gave it several stabs. I created /etc/apt/preferences.d/1grub.pref that
eventually reached the following state:
Package: grub
Pin: origin ""
Pin-Priority: -1
Package: grub2
Pin: origin ""
Pin-Priority: -1
Package: grub-common
Pin: origin ""
Pin-Priority: -1
Package: grub2-common
Pin: origin ""
Pin-Priority: -1
Package: os-prober
Pin: origin ""
Pin-Priority: -1
Package: grub-pc
Pin: origin ""
Pin-Priority: -1
Package: grub-pc-bin
Pin: origin ""
Pin-Priority: -1
Package: grub-gfxpayload-lists
Pin: origin ""
Pin-Priority: -1
I'm still getting told the following will be installed:
grub-common grub-gfxpayload-lists grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub2-common os-prober
This is a multiboot system, so no space-wasting, updates time-wasting bootloader
is needed or wanted on the installation making this insistence.
:-(
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