Bug#155568: marked as done (apt: A Pin less than 100 do not work in /etc/apt/preferences)
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Subject: apt: A Pin less than 100 do not work in /etc/apt/preferences
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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal
If I insert somethink like
Package: binutils
Pin: version 2.12.90.0.15-1
Pin-Priority: -1
or
Package: binutils
Pin: version 2.12.90.0.15*
Pin-Priority: -1
to /etc/apt/preferences, it will be ignored. So there is no way to knock
out a buggy newer version. Only the following works:
Package: binutils
Pin: version 2.12.90.0.14-1
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux baloo 2.4.19 #1 Mon Aug 5 13:46:21 CEST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-11 The GNU stdc++ library
-- no debconf information
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Subject: Not a bug
From: Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>
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The reason your method doesn't work is that the
currently installed version always has priority 100,
even if you try to set it to something else.
To knock out a buggy version, you have to make available
some other version with a priority higher than 100.
Cheers
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Thomas Hood
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