-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Is there a way to tell apt to calculate its dependency resolution so as to avoid removing a particular package, without limiting that package to a particular version?
Specifically, I'd like to pin fglrx-driver to "installed" (but not necessarily to any particular version or release), so that when new X is released and fglrx hasn't been updated to match it yet my routine upgrades will stay with the older X rather than trying to remove the graphics driver. I know this can be done manually on the command line at dist-upgrade time, by explicitly specifying the package name(s) to be retained, but I haven't found a way of doing it long-term that works. The obvious approach is package pinning in the preferences file at higher-than-default priority, something like: ======== Package: fglrx-driver Pin: version * Priority: 1001 ======== but that has no visible effect; when an X not compatible with the newest available fglrx-driver is available, 'apt-get dist-upgrade' still tries to remove fglrx-driver. Is it just that my pinning stanza syntax is incorrect, or is there something else? Or is there really no way to do this, except manually every time? (I know that the basic effect can be achieved by explicitly limiting the package to a particular version - either via package pinning or, more crudely and clunkily and at more risk of breaking things, with 'dpkg - --set-selections' - but I don't want to do that; I want to let apt upgrade fglrx-driver and X as soon as compatible new versions are available, without my having to explicitly notice the change and revert the version-specific pin/hold.) - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTyyI1AAoJEASpNY00KDJrKscQAIQHJ0AB/RoTEsRRE+oPmJgu 73eOrU8Btok3hIE/1CoaY1vqYO/HYLwnEV+qjdzXRZV6k8n3JCJyjp2Ha0rH7I9f OOh09wcjgRe/nJATEaRklgiUH5kwrKiubKZJ/h0o80FE8tk9hMBXqKFRexr6vrh5 4W7GgdgyTXrWw1/SGu5kDjJt7lI/iirCX0lKM9EdiT9Mtumx3B+H6HOn7Q896dNl oeZfsJeUJ6TVGQd3fbV+SXxZy7a3Hr+H4NyjBXUEUMpfhmMCU4D0FuChcQcyXyoS IsMubPVGVjRBWyWI5ZL6+k0Pl1IYBF2q2l+/xMRTbOuShXrgHhymMwIRbUAnOtwO Ewncnejt9MLBwMFeOLfvBJWlKiZ4ynKY6reEeiknqNP2N81KU3MevvTakLfvfOWC UwGQlEfNBuQo+epyS8L3UynstdPJzfxX1IWlewetRzWCog/RKupROqEQULbobVIh YPrTV+0ieo64OzQDU/J8cbUD2gM4yFJnfRM2favZ107St20a+FwEmaqyDRhX3brK LNmWRut2gfuJyNSAi+4OGjqG1nnFO9yvX+zszwbQQJbuWvbxSngIct04/0rZyb1B ZB+VSX7mnp/w/adU0zf/F8QdNQuB5GPQuiYWSdBe1NA0AV+J/l1+ozXOZcJDB5J3 FRvhF4WkHmhcr0y+Nfl/ =PZhz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53cb2235.9040...@fastmail.fm
