Bug#213718: marked as done (apt apt-utils: ignores existing /etc/apt/preferences)
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Package: apt apt-utils
Version: 0.5.14 (not installed)
Severity: important
ignores existing /etc/apt/preferences with entries like:
Package: gthumb
Pin: version 0.13-*
Package: xlibmesa-gl-dev
Pin: version 4.1.0-16
Package: xlibmesa-glu-dev
Pin: version 4.1.0-16
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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 13:15:23 -0400
From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
To: Gerhard Kroder <gerhard.kroder@t-online.de>
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Subject: Re: Bug#213718: apt: ignores release tags also
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On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 06:33:10PM +0200, Gerhard Kroder wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>
> >>Package: *
> >>Pin: release a=testing
> >>Pin-Priority=600
> >>
> >>Package: *
> >>Pin: release a=sid
> >>Pin-Priority=100
> >>
> >>
> >
> >You want a=unstable here, not a=sid.
> >
> Hmm, i was curious about that, but since it worked for months with
> a=sid i left it. Is it some {policy|rule|habit|...} to use unstable
> instead of sid? And why does an "apt-cache policy" report sid instead
> of unstable?
It needs to match what is in the Release file found at the location
specified in sources.list. The official Debian archive Release file says
"unstable", not "sid".
> Anyway, this doesn't solve the problem of ignoring preferences:
>
> >gk@silver:~$ apt-cache policy apt
> >apt:
> > Installed: 0.5.14
> > Candidate: 0.5.14
> > Version Table:
> > *** 0.5.14 0
> > 500 file: sarge/main Packages
> > 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org sarge/main Packages
> > 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org sid/main Packages
> > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> >W: No priority (or zero) specified for pin
> >W: No priority (or zero) specified for pin
>
>
>
>
> Warnings about no/zero specified priorities, so apt seems to set default
> 500 instead of using configured 600/100 for sarge/sid. Worse, apt tries
> to upgrade to newest seen package (i.e. sid's packages):
>
> >gk@silver:~$ apt-cache policy bash
> >bash:
> > Installed: 2.05b-8.1
> > Candidate: 2.05b-10
> > Version Table:
> > 2.05b-10 0
> > 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org sid/main Packages
> > *** 2.05b-8.1 0
> > 500 file: sarge/main Packages
> > 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org sarge/main Packages
> > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> >W: No priority (or zero) specified for pin
> >W: No priority (or zero) specified for pin
Which is a result of broken syntax in your preferences file. As that
warning message indicates, there was no priority specified.
> >>Pin-Priority=100
Should be:
Pin-Priority: 100
This could not possibly have ever worked.
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- mdz
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