Bug#169097: marked as done (apt: Regarding breakages: Load small notes from main site?)
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From: Erich Schubert <erich@debian.org>
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Subject: apt: Regarding breakages: Load small notes from main site?
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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist
Regarding the recent breakage due to libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2
it would be nice if apt could download a notes file (eventually
containing some "hold" statements) and display these warnings to the
users.
As long as the file is kept small it could be loaded from a smaller set
of servers (and updated much faster!)
I think of some statement in /etc/apt/sources.list like
notes http://www.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
which could then contain a note like
"Don't upgrade libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 - it will break lot's of stuff"
(eventually also containing a parseable line like
"avoid: libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (= 1:2.95.4-12)"
which could be used to prevent apt from upgrading this package)
Maybe this could even be realized as an apt plugin.
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hi libc6 2.3.1-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-14 The GNU stdc++ library
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Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 16:39:21 -0500
From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: apt: Regarding breakages: Load small notes from main site?
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> Regarding the recent breakage due to libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 it would be
> nice if apt could download a notes file (eventually containing some "hold"
> statements) and display these warnings to the users.
This is beyond the scope of apt itself, but apt provides facilities to run
other programs to do things like this. See:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=169361
for a tool which does something like this.
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- mdz
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