tags 265641 moreinfo thanks On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 01:15:35AM -0700, Joshua Neal wrote:
> If you have packages pinned in /etc/apt/preferences, and those packages > are not installed, then apt-cache will silently remove that package from > its list of available packages (as in the 'apt-cache dumpavail' option), > and apt-get install will declare that the package is not available. Yet > frustratingly enough, 'apt-cache show' will display the package > information and 'apt-get source' will work happily. > > I understand this is probably correct behavior, but in my case these > entries were added to /etc/apt/preferences by apt-listbugs long ago, so > it was entirely non-obvious as to why it was not working. > > Example from /etc/apt/preferences: > > Explanation: Pinned by apt-listbugs at Fri Jan 30 02:08:57 PST 2004 > Package: wine > Pin: version 0.0.20030813-2 > Pin-Priority: 1000 That does not sound like correct behaviour. Please send a transcript demonstrating exactly what you mean, so that I can try to reproduce the bug. -- - mdz
