Package: apt Version: 0.6.46.4-0.1 Severity: important
Hello, After spending SEVERAL hours trying to figure out how pinning a package works, I found that apt is completely buggy regarding package pinning. The documentation at apt_preferences(5) or apt howto or wherever you look is absolutely confusing and incorrect. That's when I found this article: http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/debian.html Explaining all the mess APT does. Please look at the errata section. The author had to debug APTs code to find ouot how it works. Glad I didn't lost my time doing that. I just hope that package pinning gets fixed to work accoording to (a new re-written) manual. Today, one is unable to pin-priority a single package from a repository, only a full repository / section. This one is quite OLD, I really hope it gets fixed to the next Debian release. Thank you. -- Package-specific info: -- apt-config dump -- APT ""; APT::Architecture "i386"; APT::Build-Essential ""; APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential"; APT::Authentication ""; APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true"; APT::Cache-Limit "141943904"; Dir "/"; Dir::State "var/lib/apt/"; Dir::State::lists "lists/"; Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list"; Dir::State::userstatus "status.user"; Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status"; Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/"; Dir::Cache::archives "archives/"; Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin"; Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin"; Dir::Etc "etc/apt/"; Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list"; Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d"; Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list"; Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d"; Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf"; Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d"; Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences"; Dir::Bin ""; Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods"; Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg"; DPkg ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true"; DPkg::Post-Invoke ""; DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/sbin/localepurge ] && [ $(ps w -p $PPID | grep -c remove) != 1 ]; then /usr/sbin/localepurge; else exit 0; fi"; -- /etc/apt/preferences -- Package: * Pin: release o=winehq Pin-Priority: 991 Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 990 Package: * Pin: release o=Backports.org archive Pin-Priority: 400 Package: broffice.org Pin: release a=etch-backports Pin-Priority: 991 Package: fuse-utils Pin: release a=etch-backports Pin-Priority: 991 Package: ia32-sun-java6-bin Pin: release a=etch-backports Pin-Priority: 991 Package: ia32-sun-java6-plugin Pin: release a=etch-backports Pin-Priority: 991 Package: libfuse2 Pin: release a=etch-backports Pin-Priority: 991 Package: libfuse-dev Pin: release a=etch-backports Pin-Priority: 991 Package: libmythes-dev Pin: release a=etch-backports Pin-Priority: 991 Package: libntfs-3g2 Pin: release a=etch-backports Pin-Priority: 991 Package: libntfs-3g-dev 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a=experimental Pin-Priority: 100 Package: debhelper Pin: release a=testing version * Pin-Priority: 1100 -- /etc/apt/sources.list -- ############################################################################### # Debian GNU/Linux # ############################################################################### ## ## Stable ## # Released distribution deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free # Security updates deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free # Volatile packages deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile stable/volatile main contrib non-free deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile stable/volatile main contrib non-free ## ## Testing ## # Unreleased distribution deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free # Security updates deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free ## ## Unstable ## # Unstable packages deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free ## ## Experimental ## # Experimental packages deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free -- System Information: APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (300, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-k7 Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2007.07.31~etch1 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C 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