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and subject line Re: Bug#537391: aptitude: option "-t experimental" is not
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1
Severity: normal
> aptitude -t experimental show python-virtualenv
Unable to find an archive "experimental" for the package "python-virtualenv"
Package: python-virtualenv
State: not installed
Version: 1.3.3-1
....
> aptitude -t unstable show python-virtualenv
Package: python-virtualenv
State: not installed
Version: 1.3.3-1
....
> aptitude -t stable show python-virtualenv
Package: python-virtualenv
State: not installed
Version: 1.1-1
....
> aptitude -t "testing" show python-virtualenv
Unable to find an archive "testing" for the package "python-virtualenv"
Package: python-virtualenv
State: not installed
Version: 1.3.3-1
....
> cat /etc/apt/sources.list
....
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian experimental main
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid main
"sid" is not recognized as a release either. According to man "-t experimental"
should work 100%::
For instance, "aptitude -t experimental ..." will install packages from the
experimental distribution unless you specify otherwise.
Thank you for support.
-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.4.11.11 compiled at Dec 5 2008 02:43:34
Compiler: g++ 4.3.2
Compiled against:
apt version 4.6.0
NCurses version 5.6
libsigc++ version: 2.0.18
Ept support enabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20081213
cwidget version: 0.5.12
Apt version: 4.6.0
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7f76000)
libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6
(0xb7eaf000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7e71000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb7e6a000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7da6000)
libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0xb7ce5000)
libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0xb7b8f000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7b7a000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7b61000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7a72000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7a4c000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7a3f000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb78e4000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb78e0000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb78db000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f77000)
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY not set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude linkage:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.20.2+lenny1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcwidget3 0.5.12-4 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libept0 0.5.22 High-level library for managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxapian15 1.0.7-4 Search engine library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available)
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn debtags <none> (no description available)
ii tasksel 2.78 Tool for selecting tasks for insta
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 01:14:10PM -0500, anatoly <[email protected]> was heard
to say:
> > aptitude -t experimental show python-virtualenv
> Unable to find an archive "experimental" for the package "python-virtualenv"
> Package: python-virtualenv
> State: not installed
> Version: 1.3.3-1
As far as I can tell, python-virtualenv is not available in
experimental.
> > aptitude -t "testing" show python-virtualenv
> Unable to find an archive "testing" for the package "python-virtualenv"
> Package: python-virtualenv
> State: not installed
> Version: 1.3.3-1
python-virtualenv is available in testing, but you don't have a
testing line in sources.list, so aptitude doesn't know this.
The one thing that I find a bit surprising is that "aptitude show"
continues even when it can't find the requested archive. However,
this seems more useful to me than just printing nothing (it just picks
an arbitrary version of the package and prints it).
Daniel
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