Bug#645412: cupt: Pin from apt-listbugs does not prevent package install/upgrade

2012-03-13 Thread Francesco Poli
Hi Eugene! :-) On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:15:02 +0200 Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: [...] > > > # cat /etc/apt/preferences > > > > > > Explanation: Pinned by apt-listbugs at Mon Oct 17 20:51:13 + 2011 > > > Explanation: #615671: derivations: ftbfs with gcc-4.5 > > > Package: derivat

Bug#645412: cupt: Pin from apt-listbugs does not prevent package install/upgrade

2012-03-13 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hi James, > > # cat /etc/apt/preferences > > > > Explanation: Pinned by apt-listbugs at Mon Oct 17 20:51:13 + 2011 > > Explanation: #615671: derivations: ftbfs with gcc-4.5 > > Package: derivations > > Pin: version * > > Pin-Priority: -3 > > As I understand, this is now

Bug#645412: cupt: Pin from apt-listbugs does not prevent package install/upgrade

2011-10-29 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hi Francesco, On 2011-10-29 18:33, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > Well, but I hope there will be a way to tell cupt that: > > (A) version v1 of package P1 (which *is* currently installed) must not > be upgraded > > (B) package P2 (which is currently *not* installed) must not be > inst

Bug#645412: cupt: Pin from apt-listbugs does not prevent package install/upgrade

2011-10-29 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:10:10 +0300 Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: [...] > > The user should have (approximately) equivalent pins for both package > > managers. > > That's impossible if there are different pin priority systems. Well, but I hope there will be a way to tell cupt that: (A) version v1

Bug#645412: cupt: Pin from apt-listbugs does not prevent package install/upgrade

2011-10-24 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
> > In the concept I have in the mind all pin stanzas will not be final, so > > I think this check can be totally disabled in "cupt" mode. > > This looks problematic to me. > I mean: I don't think that apt-listbugs should have distinct modes > depending on the package manager the user wants to use

Bug#645412: cupt: Pin from apt-listbugs does not prevent package install/upgrade

2011-10-23 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:12:43 +0300 Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: [...] > On 2011-10-16 12:35, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > > Mh... > > This looks like much more work than it would appear at a first > > glance... :-( > > Indeed I was too optimistic. Still, > > > (A) it has to check whether a

Bug#645412: cupt: Pin from apt-listbugs does not prevent package install/upgrade

2011-10-18 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
On 2011-10-19 00:42, Francesco Poli wrote: > Good, I've just pushed this modification to the apt-listbugs public git > repository: see > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=apt-listbugs/apt-listbugs.git;a=commitdiff;h=c7561047b211039c5d12e0006fd3af7a16d98ea6 > > You may therefore consider this mod

Bug#645412: cupt: Pin from apt-listbugs does not prevent package install/upgrade

2011-10-18 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:36:13 +0300 Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: [...] > On 2011-10-17 23:36, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > > Assuming that this is true and confirmed, is the modification of > > apt-listbugs (so that it uses -3 instead of -40 as Pin-Priority to > > prevent the installation of a p

Bug#645412: cupt: Pin from apt-listbugs does not prevent package install/upgrade

2011-10-18 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hi Francesco, On 2011-10-17 23:36, Francesco Poli wrote: > However, cupt happily goes on and attempts to install derivations, > until apt-listbugs kicks in and warns the user (again!) that there's a > bug: [...] > If I recall correctly one conversation I had with you (Eugene) back on > January 201

Bug#645412: cupt: Pin from apt-listbugs does not prevent package install/upgrade

2011-10-17 Thread James Vega
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:36:02PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:53:40 +0300 Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > > > On 2011-10-17 00:40, Francesco Poli wrote: > > > I still have to carefully read the rest of the your reply, but, first, > > > I have to ask a question about this wo

Bug#645412: cupt: Pin from apt-listbugs does not prevent package install/upgrade

2011-10-17 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:53:40 +0300 Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > On 2011-10-17 00:40, Francesco Poli wrote: > > I still have to carefully read the rest of the your reply, but, first, > > I have to ask a question about this workaround: I am considering using > > a Pin-Priority of -3 (which has t

Bug#645412: cupt: Pin from apt-listbugs does not prevent package install/upgrade

2011-10-17 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
On 2011-10-17 00:40, Francesco Poli wrote: > I still have to carefully read the rest of the your reply, but, first, > I have to ask a question about this workaround: I am considering using > a Pin-Priority of -3 (which has the advantage of being > representable as a 16-bit signed integer, just

Bug#645412: cupt: Pin from apt-listbugs does not prevent package install/upgrade

2011-10-16 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:12:43 +0300 Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: [...] > On 2011-10-16 12:35, Francesco Poli wrote: > > Hi Eugene! :-) > > > > I can change the default Pin-Priority that apt-listbugs uses to prevent > > the installation of any version of a package from -40 to -2 , if > > this c

Bug#645412: cupt: Pin from apt-listbugs does not prevent package install/upgrade

2011-10-16 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hi, On 2011-10-16 12:35, Francesco Poli wrote: > Hi Eugene! :-) > > I can change the default Pin-Priority that apt-listbugs uses to prevent > the installation of any version of a package from -40 to -2 , if > this can work for most cases with Cupt... > For Apt/Aptitude, any negative Pin-Pri

Bug#645412: cupt: Pin from apt-listbugs does not prevent package install/upgrade

2011-10-16 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 10:46:33 +0300 Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > On 2011-10-15 17:27, James Vega wrote: > > Well, I currently don't have any libclutter-1.0-0 versions installed, > > which is why the pin is for any version. Also, I tried changing the > > Pin-Priority to -2000 and that didn't change

Bug#645412: cupt: Pin from apt-listbugs does not prevent package install/upgrade

2011-10-16 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
On 2011-10-15 17:27, James Vega wrote: > Well, I currently don't have any libclutter-1.0-0 versions installed, > which is why the pin is for any version. Also, I tried changing the > Pin-Priority to -2000 and that didn't change the outcome any. Even -2000 is too big for this case (using the curre

Bug#645412: cupt: Pin from apt-listbugs does not prevent package install/upgrade

2011-10-15 Thread James Vega
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 09:40:40PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > First and main of them is Cupt's resolver always consider all versions, > which is considered a feature. I can add a feature to stop considering > version with some priority less than X for installing, but -40 is still > too "bi

Bug#645412: cupt: Pin from apt-listbugs does not prevent package install/upgrade

2011-10-15 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
tags 645412 + confirmed upstream quit Hi James, thank you for the report, On 2011-10-15 11:21, James Vega wrote: [...] > $ cat /etc/apt/preferences > Explanation: Pinned by apt-listbugs at Sat Oct 15 10:59:17 -0400 2011 > Explanation: #619636: empathy fails to start: failed to create drawable >