On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:40:49AM +1000, Jayen Ashar wrote: > Matthew Palmer wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:44:46AM +1000, Jayen Ashar wrote: >>> Is there any documentation on why apt-get is the default for >>> debian/ubuntu, when aptitude is installed? >> >> Because nobody's put forward a patch to do it differently. >> >> Your problem isn't aptitude vs apt-get, though -- apt-get is perfectly >> capable of resolving and installing dependencies. My guess is that you >> haven't setup your preferences correctly to tell Puppet to install dependent >> packages from your backports repo: >> >> APT prefers stable >> APT policy: (500, 'stable') >> Basically, your system config is screwed, and it's not Puppet's >> fault. Nor >> will switching to aptitude solve your problem (unless it ignores repo >> preferences). > > If my system config were screwed, or I didn't set backports in my > preferences, then I would have the opposite problem, and backports would > take precedence over stable, since backports contains higher versions.
>From http://backports.org/debian/dists/lenny-backports/Release: NotAutomatic: yes Join the dots from there. > The bug report didn't include my apt_preferences, which contains: > Package: * > Pin: release a=lenny-backports > Pin-Priority: 200 Which almost certainly doesn't do what you want, as per apt_preferences(5). - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
