On Tue, 03 Apr 2018 19:52:40 +0900 Olaf Meeuwissen <[email protected]> wrote:
@Florian, @Olaf, Thank you for your most helpful replies. They have informed an improved strategy. [...] > but are you sure apt-cache > policy pays any attention to the Sources files that get downloaded? I thought it would: according to the Debian Administrators handbook, "apt-cache policy displays the priorities of package sources as well as those of individual packages" https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.apt-cache.html but I was wrong. > I don't think it does, for if it did, I would have expected output for > openssl with a "Sources" at the end of the line, just like you have > the "Packages" at the end of line above. And you are right. So: Issuing # apt-cache showsrc openssl1.0 | grep -i -A 1 -B 1 binary returns Package: openssl1.0 Binary: libssl1.0.2, libssl1.0-dev, libcrypto1.0.2-udeb, libssl1.0.2-udeb Version: 1.0.2l-2+deb9u2 -- Package: openssl1.0 Binary: libssl1.0.2, libssl1.0-dev, libcrypto1.0.2-udeb, libssl1.0.2-udeb Version: 1.0.2o-1 -- Package: openssl1.0 Binary: libssl1.0.2, libssl1.0-dev, libcrypto1.0.2-udeb, libssl1.0.2-udeb Version: 1.0.2l-2+deb9u3 Which is enough to verify that the required patch is (somewhere!) in the devuan repositories. So thank you for pointing me in the right direction. There is an anomaly in the pkgmaster repositories to which I feel the need to draw attention, and which may be relevant to the above search strategy: the deb-src entry for ascii-proposed-security generates the following error for each of main, contrib, non-free W: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/source/Sources' as repository 'http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan ascii-proposed-security InRelease' does not seem to provide it (sources.list entry misspelt?) And on inspection, the 'InRelease' file for ascii-proposed-security does not contain entries for /sources/Sources/. Many Thanks leloft _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
