Re: apt pinning question

2011-03-30 Thread John Bazik
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

Re: apt pinning question

2011-03-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-30 15:00:45 John Bazik wrote: >My local archive is oldstable (same as lenny), and I have no target >release defined. > >sources.list: > deb http://mymirror/debian lenny main contrib non-free > deb http://mymirror/debian-security lenny/updates main contrib non-free > deb http://mymi

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: apt pinning question

2009-12-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,12.Dec.09, 22:09:59, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 09:49:22AM +1100, Gordon Wrigley wrote: > > 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

Re: Re: apt pinning question

2009-12-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 03:57:27PM +1100, Gordon Wrigley wrote: > >> 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 th

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 Rob Owens
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 09:49:22AM +1100, Gordon Wrigley wrote: > 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 versi

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

Re: apt pinning question

2009-12-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 03:28:19PM +1100, Gordon Wrigley wrote: > 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

Re: apt pinning question

2009-12-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,12.Dec.09, 15:28:19, Gordon Wrigley wrote: > 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. Hmm, I would suggest ubuntu-users or similar mailing list, but there is indeed a chance that your question is not Ubuntu sp