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Bug#507175: marked as done (Downgrade refused despite Pin-Piriority > 1000)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #507175,
regarding Downgrade refused despite Pin-Piriority > 1000
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Package: apt
Version: 0.6.46.4-0.1

Priority is set in preferences:

| root@sl1:~# grep -1 vzctl /etc/apt/preferences
| Package: vzctl
| Pin: version 3.0.23-1dso1~etch0~sl.1
| Pin-Priority: 1001

And apt-cache policy seems to recognize it:

| root@sl1:~# apt-cache policy vzctl
| vzctl:
|   Installed: 3.0.23-1dso1~etch0
|   Candidate: 3.0.23-1dso1~etch0~sl.1
|   Package pin: 3.0.23-1dso1~etch0~sl.1
|   Version table:
|  *** 3.0.23-1dso1~etch0 1001
|         500 http://debian.systs.org etch/openvz Packages
|         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
|      3.0.23-1dso1~etch0~sl.1 1001
|         500 http://debian.softwarelab.eu etch-openvz/main Packages
|      3.0.11-14 1001
|         500 http://ftp.pl.debian.org etch/main Packages

However apt-get still refuses to downgrade without --force-yes

| root@sl1:~# /usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold install vzctl
| Reading package lists...
| Building dependency tree...
| The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
|   vzctl
| 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 downgraded, 0 to remove and 2 not
| upgraded.
| Need to get 210kB of archives.
| After unpacking 160kB disk space will be freed.
| E: There are problems and -y was used without --force-yes

This makes package management using puppet somewhat difficult. The
apt-get command line above is what puppet's apt provider uses to install
the package's "newest" version. --force-yes is not on that line, and I'd
say that's correct. However right now automatic downgrades seem
impossible.

While it might be possible to change puppet to add --force-yes in such
situations, I don't think this would be a good idea. Changing this on
apt side seems like a much cleaner solution.

Any comments?

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On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 07:11:17PM +0000, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.46.4-0.1
> 
> Priority is set in preferences:
> 
> | root@sl1:~# grep -1 vzctl /etc/apt/preferences
> | Package: vzctl
> | Pin: version 3.0.23-1dso1~etch0~sl.1
> | Pin-Priority: 1001
> 
> And apt-cache policy seems to recognize it:
> 
> | root@sl1:~# apt-cache policy vzctl
> | vzctl:
> |   Installed: 3.0.23-1dso1~etch0
> |   Candidate: 3.0.23-1dso1~etch0~sl.1
> |   Package pin: 3.0.23-1dso1~etch0~sl.1
> |   Version table:
> |  *** 3.0.23-1dso1~etch0 1001
> |         500 http://debian.systs.org etch/openvz Packages
> |         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> |      3.0.23-1dso1~etch0~sl.1 1001
> |         500 http://debian.softwarelab.eu etch-openvz/main Packages
> |      3.0.11-14 1001
> |         500 http://ftp.pl.debian.org etch/main Packages
> 
> However apt-get still refuses to downgrade without --force-yes
> 
> | root@sl1:~# /usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold install vzctl
> | Reading package lists...
> | Building dependency tree...
> | The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
> |   vzctl
> | 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 downgraded, 0 to remove and 2 not
> | upgraded.
> | Need to get 210kB of archives.
> | After unpacking 160kB disk space will be freed.
> | E: There are problems and -y was used without --force-yes
> 
> This makes package management using puppet somewhat difficult. The
> apt-get command line above is what puppet's apt provider uses to install
> the package's "newest" version. --force-yes is not on that line, and I'd
> say that's correct. However right now automatic downgrades seem
> impossible.
> 
> While it might be possible to change puppet to add --force-yes in such
> situations, I don't think this would be a good idea. Changing this on
> apt side seems like a much cleaner solution.
> 
> Any comments?

This is working as indented. APT cannot really know that your intent
is to downgrade, and wants to make sure. Future versions will not
require --force-yes anymore, but --allow-downgrades, so things will
be even safer.

Thus, closing, as this is not a bug.

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