On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 03:35:13PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> Looks broken to me, as well. Perhaps this is worth a bug report? At the very
Yeah, that's next. I was hoping I was missing something.
> Nothing in /etc/apt/preferences.d? What's the output of (apt-cache policy |
> awk 'BEGIN { p = 0 } /^Pinned packages:/ { p = 1 } { if (p) print }')?
Pinned packages:
dovecot-imapd -> 1:1.2.15-1~bpo50+1
> Try adding this to your preferences:
> Package: dovecot-imapd
> Pin: release a=oldstable
> Pin-Priority: 750
I tried that. It doesn't help. The winner depends on their order
of appearance in the preferences file (I verified this by moving them
around).
> If that works, that provides evidence it is as I feared. Having any package-
> name match in any specific-form prevents application of all general-form to
> packages with that name. I think that is one valid interpretation of the
No, if you set a different priority, it works as expected.
And, anyway, it can determine the priority all it wants - it's still 750.
Once we've established priorities for all the versions, the doc says:
o If two or more versions have the same priority, install the most
recent one (that is, the one with the higher version number).
I guess I've got a bug.
John
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