Has any progress been made on fixing aptitude so it properly respects files in preferences.d?
I've noticed this behavoir with aptitude 0.61.5-3.
Thanks!
jamie
0 robideau:~# dpkg -l aptitude
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii aptitude 0.6.1.5-3 terminal-based package manager (terminal int
0 robideau:~# cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/rdiff-backup
Package: rdiff-backup
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 999
0 robideau:~# apt-cache policy rdiff-backup
rdiff-backup:
Installed: 1.2.5-1
Candidate: 1.2.5-1
Package pin: 1.2.5-1
Version table:
1.2.8-6 999
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main Packages
*** 1.2.5-1 999
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0 robideau:~# aptitude dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information... Done
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
rdiff-backup
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/202kB of archives. After unpacking 41.0kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
Abort.
0 robideau:~#
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