Bug#776435: apt: Package install with apt preferences won't follow dependencies for release
Control: tag -1 wontfix
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 03:29:47PM -0700, Dan Urist wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.9.7.9+deb7u6
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> With "apt-get install -t", a package and all its dependencies are
> installed from the given release. There seems to be no way to achieve
> the same behavior with apt preferences. While it's possible to specify
> a glob or regexp for package names in apt preferences, any dependent
> packages that don't match won't be installed from the given
> release. The use case for this functionality is in systems managed by
> configuration management software (e.g. puppet), where it's much more
> straightforward to specify behavior in a configuration file than via
> flags to a specific command.
The -t option set's default release, which is equivalent to
Package: *
Pin: release a=<VALUE PASSED TO -t>
Pin-Priority: 990
it does not do anything special for dependencies.
Marking as wontfix.
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