Bug#175121: marked as done (apt-get does not honour Default-Release or Pin-Priority)
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From: Steven Homolya <Steven.Homolya@spme.monash.edu.au>
Subject: apt-get does not honour Default-Release or Pin-Priority
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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
apt-get sometimes ignores:
APT::Default-Release "stable";
in /etc/apt/apt.conf and installs from testing or unstable.
After I broke things by trying to install kde3, I attempted to downgrade
to stable (which is where 99+% of my installed packages are from). Following
instructions on p. 62 of "Debian Reference" by O. Aoki, I created
/etc/apt/preferences:
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 1001
then
# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
ark: Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.2.2-1) but it is not installed
kab: Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.2.2-1) but it is not installed
karm: Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.2.2-1) but it is not installed
.... 11 similar lines deleted ...
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
# apt-get -f upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
kdelibs3
14 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
15 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 19.6MB/26.2MB of archives. After unpacking 24.8MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 ftp://ftp.monash.edu.au unstable/main libc6 2.3.1-8 [3190kB]
Get:2 ftp://ftp.monash.edu.au unstable/main coreutils 4.5.4-1 [2085kB]
CTRL-C
As you can see libc6 has been downloaded from _unstable_ despite the
pin-priority of 1001 for stable in /etc/apt/preferences
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Steven Homolya
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Monash University VIC 3800
Australia
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Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 17:56:45 -0700 (MST)
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#175121: apt-get does not honour Default-Release or Pin-Priority
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To: Steven Homolya <Steven.Homolya@spme.monash.edu.au>,
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On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Steven Homolya wrote:
> apt-get sometimes ignores:
> APT::Default-Release "stable";
> in /etc/apt/apt.conf and installs from testing or unstable.
If you read the apt_preferences man page carefully you will find that this
is the documented behavior. If a particular package is already installed
with a version higher than the default-release then the latest version of
that package is always used, unless you further change things using the
preferences file..
> 14 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 15 packages not fully installed or removed.
The snippet you posted certainly works, but there are lots of factors that
can correctly ccause the output you quoted.
You need to investigate using the apt-cache policy feature and the -s
option to apt-get.
Jason
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