On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 13:18:23 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 07:04:15PM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > > > There are ~180 hurd packages duplicated in unreleased and sid. > > > > > > 131 of these are obsolete packages in unreleased, ie the duplicates > > > in sid are newer. > > > > > > I have generated a list of these packages. Anyone want to use it > > > to remove the offending packags from unreleased? > > > > Yes, please post them; I think at least Guillem can get them removed > > from unreleased. > > > > At this point, I think APT-pinning to prefer unreleased over unstable > > makes trouble than it has benefits, so /etc/apt/preferences should be > > adjusted. > > I added support to mini-dak to automatically remove obsolete packages > from unreleased long time ago. I'll check later on why it's not doing > that anymore. > > regards, > guillem >
Thanks. It will make life easier for me. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818 Fax +64 3 488 2875 Mobile 027 663 4453 [email protected] - personal. [email protected] - business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
