Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: normal I have a sources.list pointing to woody and potato, with a Default-Release of "3.0*". This is because we still need some packages from potato that were dropped from woody.
But I don't want those packages that were essential in potato, and are not essential in woody any more (ldso and update), so I try to prevent them from being installed using preferences, like: | Package: ldso | Pin: version 1.9.11-15 | Pin-Priority: 2 The pin is reflected in the policy output near *every* version, whatever that means, but the priority listed for the sources does not get changed: | # apt-cache policy ldso | ldso: | Installed: (none) | Candidate: 1.9.11-15 | Package Pin: 1.9.11-15 | Version Table: | 1.9.11-15 2 | 990 http://debian-mirror.alcove-fr woody/main Packages | 1.9.11-9 2 | 500 http://debian-mirror.alcove-fr potato/main Packages And the version pinned to "2" is still considered candidate: | # apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris -y | Reading Package Lists... Done | Building Dependency Tree... Done | Calculating Upgrade... Done | The following NEW packages will be installed: | ldso update | 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. | Need to get 85.4kB of archives. After unpacking 213kB will be used. | 'http://debian-mirror.alcove-fr/pool/main/u/update/update_2.11-4_i386.deb' update_2.11-4_i386.deb 6426 46640e3a5e9d57976833afbafe7ea9b2 | 'http://debian-mirror.alcove-fr/pool/main/l/ld.so/ldso_1.9.11-15_i386.deb' ldso_1.9.11-15_i386.deb 78980 e36262f73c3229568281e1e3ee38af36 -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux vitel 2.4.20-station+usbdev #1 Thu Feb 20 16:32:00 CET 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=french, LC_CTYPE=french Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-11.5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-11woody1 The GNU stdc++ library -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support manager Responsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant senior en Logiciels Libres Debian developer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Développeur Debian
