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Subject: Ugrading apt 0.5.4 (stable) to 0.5.14 (testing) results in ignoring pin priorities in /etc/apt/preferences
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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.14
Severity: normal
The syntax of /etc/apt/preferences used "Priority: " tags while the syntax
in 0.5.14 is "Pin-Priority: ". After upgrading to 0.5.14 the
/etc/apt/preferences file remains the same but the new apt looks for
"Pin-Priority: ", does not find it and produces warning:
W: No priority (or zero) specified for pin
I guess a possible solution would be to update the postinst script to
upgrade /etc/apt/preferences file to the new format. However older
preferences files may come up from backups and produce the same warnings.
A more user friendly approach is to patch policy.cc:
--- policy.cc.orig 2003-11-02 23:08:39.000000000 +1030
+++ policy.cc 2003-11-02 23:11:27.000000000 +1030
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@
for (; Word != End && isspace(*Word) != 0; Word++);
short int priority = Tags.FindI("Pin-Priority", 0);
- if (priority == 0)
+ if ((priority == 0) || ((priority = Tags.FindI("Priority")) == 0))
{
_error->Warning(_("No priority (or zero) specified for pin"));
continue;
With this patch apt will work either way, providing smooth transition from
the older format.
Note that apt-howto needs to be updated as well, unless the maintainer
decides to back-off the change and revert to the old "Priority: " tag.
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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 11:23:05 -0500
From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
To: vesok@yahoo.com, 218876-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#218876: Ugrading apt 0.5.4 (stable) to 0.5.14 (testing) results in ignoring pin priorities in /etc/apt/preferences
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On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 05:46:18PM +1100, Vesselin Kostadinov wrote:
> The syntax of /etc/apt/preferences used "Priority: " tags while the syntax
> in 0.5.14 is "Pin-Priority: ". After upgrading to 0.5.14 the
> /etc/apt/preferences file remains the same but the new apt looks for
> "Pin-Priority: ", does not find it and produces warning:
>
> W: No priority (or zero) specified for pin
>
> I guess a possible solution would be to update the postinst script to
> upgrade /etc/apt/preferences file to the new format. However older
> preferences files may come up from backups and produce the same warnings.
There was no format change; the name has always been Pin-Priority. It's
just that apt previously didn't warn if you didn't specify Pin-Priority, and
unknown fields are silently ignored.
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- mdz
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