Bug#216768: apt: Confirmed under Lenny with several sources and pinning
Am Montag, den 02.11.2009, 09:56 +0000 schrieb Ivan Vilata i Balaguer:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.7.20.2+lenny1
> Followup-For: Bug #216768
>
>
> My APT setup includes sources from Lenny (stable) and Squeeze (testing), pinned so that only
> certain packages get pulled from testing. I have ``apticron`` installed and since I made the
> mixed setup with pinning, it reports that ``dash`` and ``diffutils`` are pending an upgrade,
> when neither of them are installed. It happens that both packages are essential in Squeeze,
> but not in Lenny. If I install the Lenny version of ``dash`` and try to remove it with
> Aptitude, it insists in the installed package being essential, which is untrue.
>
> Forcing the removal of ``dash`` and ``diffutils`` reverts the system to the same state (i.e.
> ``apticron`` recommending the upgrade of the uninstalled packages).
The problem is that the essential state is package specific and not
version specific. This means that as long as there is one essential
version of a package, all versions are considered essential.
But anyway, dash and diffutils are essential in Squeeze, so you must
have them installed if you want to install software from squeeze as such
software may depend on them implicitly.
Maybe it helps to pin those packages with priority -1. If not, it would
be an idea to make this possible so people could manually overwrite
essential packages.
You could also try to use another package manager such as cupt or smart,
and see if they do what you want.
>
> -- Package-specific info:
>
> -- apt-config dump --
>
> APT "";
> APT::Architecture "i386";
> APT::Build-Essential "";
> APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
> APT::Install-Recommends "1";
> APT::Install-Suggests "0";
> APT::Acquire "";
> APT::Acquire::Translation "environment";
> APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
> APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
> APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
> APT::Default-Release "stable";
> Dir "/";
> Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
> Dir::State::lists "lists/";
> Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
> Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
> Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
> Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
> Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
> Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
> Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
> Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
> Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
> Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
> Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
> Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
> Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
> Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
> Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
> Dir::Bin "";
> Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
> Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
> Dir::Log "var/log/apt";
> Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log";
> DPkg "";
> DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
> DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10";
> DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
> DPkg::Tools "";
> DPkg::Tools::Options "";
> DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges "";
> DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2";
>
> -- /etc/apt/preferences --
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=lenny-backports
> Pin-Priority: 200
>
> Package: drupal6
> Pin: release a=lenny-backports
> Pin-Priority: 999
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 190
>
> Package: prosody
> Pin: release a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 999
>
> Package: liblua5.1-sec0
> Pin: release a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 999
>
>
> -- /etc/apt/sources.list --
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
>
> ## <XNX by="ivan" date="2009-10-30">
> deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main
> ## </XNX>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 5.0.3
> APT prefers stable
> APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (190, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.8-linode16 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages apt depends on:
> ii debian-archive-keyring 2009.01.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
> ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library
> ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
>
> apt recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages apt suggests:
> pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
> ii aptitude 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 terminal-based package manager
> pn bzip2 <none> (no description available)
> pn dpkg-dev <none> (no description available)
> ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
> ii python-apt 0.7.7.1+nmu1 Python interface to libapt-pkg
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
--
Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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