Hi all, I am experiencing a problem related to upgrades, external archives, and APT pinning. The following line in my sources.list gives me access to daily bzr snapshots: # bzr 0.8pre deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~jbailey/snapshot/bzr ./ Every day, a new snapshot comes around. I don't want them to be updated automatically, so I tried to add the proper pins to the APT preferences file: # bzr updates daily, we don't want automatic updates with cron-apt Package: bzr Pin: release o=Jeff Bailey,l=Jeff Bailey Pin-Priority: 50 # bzrtools updates daily, we don't want automatic updates with cron-apt Package: bzrtools Pin: release o=Jeff Bailey,l=Jeff Bailey Pin-Priority: 50 I chose priority 50 because the manpage claims that this priority "causes a version to be installed only if there is no installed version of the package". Since there is a version installed, I expect no upgrade candidate. I verify these pins with `apt-cache policy`, but get a surprising result: seamus:~> apt-cache policy bzr [303] bzr: Installed: 0.8~200602200207 Candidate: 0.8~200602281718 Package Pin: 0.8~200602281718 Version Table: 0.8~200602281718 50 500 http://people.ubuntu.com ./ Packages *** 0.8~200602200207 50 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 0.7-2 50 500 http://mouth.voxel.net ./ Packages In all cases I've previously encountered, the three asterisks would always correspond to the version identified on the /^Candidate:/ line. In the above case, however, it's different. Can someone shine some light on what's going on? Could this be related to the use of ~ in the version number? And while we're at it, what's the meaning of the three asterisks, if it's not identifying the candidate? -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer and author: http://debiansystem.info `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP (sub)keys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! it is ok to let your mind go blank, but please turn off the sound.
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