Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: normal I am sorry if this is a known issue or a configuration error on my system. I researched this issue for a long time and couldn't find a solution, so I think it's a bug ;)
When I do apt-get install bash apt-get will download and install the same bash package everytime. Also, each apt-get upgrade will install the same 9 packages again and again, although they are already installed. This started when I added my own repository: deb http://debian.nethype.de/ ./ deb-src http://debian.nethype.de/ ./ which contains alternative versions of these 9 packages The Release file can be downloaded there and contains "nethype" for archive, origin etc., but playing around with that didn't change anything. My preferences file looks as follows: Package: * Pin: release o=nethype Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin: release o=Debian Pin-Priority: -70 That is, use packages from "nethype" no matter what, and this works (apt-get install bash indeed installs the nethype version). Changing that priority from 1001 to 999 or so doesn't change anything. Also, "apt-get install bash/nethype" will still result in the same behaviour: apt-get will download and install the package again. So it seems apt-get installs the package but then forgets about it, thinking it needs to upgrade it again and again. Thanks for any feedback. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux cerebro 2.4.21-pre5 #3 SMP Mon Mar 10 16:53:17 CET 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Versions of packages apt depends on: hi libc6 2.3.2-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-17 The GNU stdc++ library -- no debconf information
