I don't know what happened.
It seems that the debian repository and aptitude didn't tell each other about
dbmail_2.2.5rc and that started everything into a lovely tailspin.
I had to manually download and install the packages from nfsd to get dbmail and
dbmail-pgsql to understand that they were friends and supposed to play nice at
2.2.5.
It's working now.
But I've had problems in the past where the debian repository @ nfsd isn't
reporting in aptitude what I'm able to see in the browser. This has prevented
me from upgrades in the past as well. I've included my preferences and sources
data and would really appreciate any eyes that could look for something that
might be amiss. Please note that the debian.org testing branch is usually
commented out and was only include herein because I was trying to upgrade to
2.2.3 in debian -testing (which also didn't go well).
I don't believe the problems have ever been directly attributed to dbmail but
the debian packaging configuration that I have on this particular box. I have a
preference to keep things on debian-stable as much as possible with the
exception of dbmail which is currently not listed in the debian-stable branch.
Since there is no debian-stable packages for dbmail, I can go with either
debian-testing or nfsd-stable, but I'm not having much luck with them from time
to time. I would love to PIN these packages if I could figure out how to do
that so I can upgrade at my discretion. Having the house mail server go down
when the wife is expecting email about job applications makes my life pretty
unbearable and rightfully so. Please help a fellow avoid these lovely moments...
Maybe the best question I can ask for now is:
how do I specify Pinning for dbmail packages?
I've tried in the past and not much luck.
I tried
Package: dbmail-pgsql
Pin: version 2.2*
Pin-Priority: 1001
I thought I could use:
Package: dbmail*
Pin: version 2.2.5*
Pin-Priority: 1001
help?
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cling:~# cat /etc/apt/preferences
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 400
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 500
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 600
cling:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
#deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
#deb http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
#deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
#deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
#deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib
non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
#deb-src http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
# DBMAIL
#deb http://debian.nfgd.net/debian unstable main
deb http://debian.nfgd.net/debian stable main
#deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main
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