Re: Re: Re: apt pinning question

2009-12-14 Thread Gordon Wrigley
> I wonder if it'll behave any differently if you use aptitude instead of > apt-get. I've never used aptitude before, so after your suggestion I gave it a try and aptitude does behave differently. What it does is it complains of the same problem as apt, then it offers to fix it and in every examp

Re: Re: apt pinning question

2009-12-12 Thread Gordon Wrigley
>> Another way to look at this would be to ask... >> >> Given two available versions of a package where the higher version has >> the lower priority, how do I get apt to automatically install the >> lower priority one when the higher version is required to meet a >> dependency? > > If the higher ve

Re: apt pinning question

2009-12-12 Thread Gordon Wrigley
Another way to look at this would be to ask... Given two available versions of a package where the higher version has the lower priority, how do I get apt to automatically install the lower priority one when the higher version is required to meet a dependency? G -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: Re: apt pinning question

2009-12-12 Thread Gordon Wrigley
> Are you sure that this applies to *all* lucid sections, including > lucid-updates and lucid-security? I recall reading some blogs that > indicated that Ubuntu's pinning and default release settings don't > work exactly like Debian's. I checked it with apt-cache policy and everything karmic is 5

apt pinning question

2009-12-11 Thread Gordon Wrigley
I wasn't sure what venue was best to ask this in, so if this is the wrong place please direct me to the correct place. I'm using APT pinning to pull packages from both Ubuntu Karmic(stable) and Ubuntu Lucid(testing) but I'm having problems getting APT to produce the behavior I want. What I want i