A question about mixing releases
I use apt-pinning to mix stable, testing and sid. because of a bug in Squeeze I've installed fglrx-modules-dkms from sid. Today I got an update for my fglrx packages I noticed these were pulled in from a sid repository. My question is the following: if you install a package from an unstable repository does it mean that apt/aptitude then tracks unstable updates for that package? And is it possible to prevent a specific package version from being updated (like package.mask in Gentoo)? Thanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikaqczv=5=amw6k3wjjdjt2cfaepvpsc40y_...@mail.gmail.com
Re: A question about mixing releases
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:20:43AM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: I use apt-pinning to mix stable, testing and sid. because of a bug in Squeeze I've installed fglrx-modules-dkms from sid. Today I got an update for my fglrx packages I noticed these were pulled in from a sid repository. My question is the following: if you install a package from an unstable repository does it mean that apt/aptitude then tracks unstable updates for that package? Package may be upgraded only if there's one with a bigger version number. If you have package from sid, the newer may appear only in sid. That is, aptitude tracks all the repos and would upgrade wrom that one where is the newest package - in your situation it would mean 'from sid'. And is it possible to prevent a specific package version from being updated (like package.mask in Gentoo)? Thanks in advance Yes, that's called 'hold'. Just run # aptitude hold package and package would never ever be updated unless you unhold it with # aptitude unhold package -- Regards, Alexander Batischev 1024D/69093C81 F870 A381 B5F5 D2A1 1B35 4D63 A1A7 1C77 6909 3C81 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: A question about mixing releases
On 2010-09-26 11:20 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: I use apt-pinning to mix stable, testing and sid. because of a bug in Squeeze I've installed fglrx-modules-dkms from sid. Today I got an update for my fglrx packages I noticed these were pulled in from a sid repository. My question is the following: if you install a package from an unstable repository does it mean that apt/aptitude then tracks unstable updates for that package? That depends on the Pin-Priority you use for it, see apt_preferences(5). Could you show your /etc/apt/preferences file? And is it possible to prevent a specific package version from being updated (like package.mask in Gentoo)? If you _only_ use aptitude, aptitude hold package works¹. Unfortunately this is ignored by apt-get, you can use echo package hold | dpkg --set-selections. Sven ¹ This is not totally reliable with lenny's aptitude, but squeeze's aptitude should always respect it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/871v8ger7x@turtle.gmx.de
Re: A question about mixing releases
Thanks for the help. I thought dpkg --set-selections doesn't' work with package versions. My apt/preferences file: $ cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 650 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 600 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinruvnqmx-rda1gzwr33ekwcoy5u4iy59x3v...@mail.gmail.com
Re: A question about mixing releases
On 2010-09-26 12:58 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: Thanks for the help. I thought dpkg --set-selections doesn't' work with package versions. My apt/preferences file: $ cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 650 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 600 Thanks, with this Pin-Priority packages that you install from unstable will be updated automatically from there as long as they don't migrate to testing. This is probably what you want, but if you would like to avoid it, you could set unstable's Pin-Priority to a value 100 (100 is the priority of installed versions). Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87lj6odao2@turtle.gmx.de
Re: A question about mixing releases
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: Thanks, with this Pin-Priority packages that you install from unstable will be updated automatically from there as long as they don't migrate to testing. This is probably what you want, but if you would like to avoid it, you could set unstable's Pin-Priority to a value 100 (100 is the priority of installed versions). Thanks for the help! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinj1cnar60fmwfqucf-ln-tmmmgkjk0hxg...@mail.gmail.com
