Public bug reported: We're running a mixed system. We're running Gutsy until Hardy is officially released, but we need PHP > 5.2.3, so our sources.list contains:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted universe multiverse [...] deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted universe multiverse - and our /etc/apt/preferences contains: Package: * Pin: release a=hardy Pin-Priority: 100 aptitude respects the pin priority and only offers to upgrade 41 packages: juno% sudo aptitude -DR dist-upgrade [sudo] password for jablko: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Building tag database... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-image-2.6.24-14-generic linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-14-generic linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-14-generic The following packages will be upgraded: bzip2 cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-common firefox firefox-gnome-support landscape-client language-pack-en language-pack-gnome-en libbz2-1.0 libc6 libc6-i686 libcupsimage2 libcupsys2 libhal1 libicu36 libkrb53 libruby1.8 libssl0.9.8 linux-generic linux-image-2.6.24-12-generic linux-image-generic linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-12-generic linux-restricted-modules-common linux-restricted-modules-generic openssh-client openssh-server skype skype-common ssh ssh-askpass-gnome tzdata ubuntu-docs unzip xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-video-amd xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-nv xserver-xorg-video-vesa 41 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 134MB of archives. After unpacking 194MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] However smart wants to upgrade > 900: juno% smart upgrade Loading cache... Updating cache... ######################################## [100%] Computing transaction... Upgrading packages (906): acpi-support libgtkspell0 adduser libgtop2-7 alacarte libgtop2-common [...] Thanks and best wishes, Jack ** Affects: smart (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- not respecting apt pinning https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/212643 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs