Bug#746200: apt: Apt-get install doesn't respect /target_release
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 06:15:21PM -0500, Wayne Rowcliffe wrote: Package: apt Version: 1.0.2 Severity: normal Thanks for your bugreport. With the recent upgrade of apt to 1.0, /target_release flags do not seem to have any effect. For my particuluar situation, I am trying to upgrade gnome to use 3.12. This involves pulling packages from both experimental and unstable. So I attempt to do: `apt-get install gnome-shell/experimental empathy/unstable`, etc. However, when I do this apt seems to completely ignore the flags and instead tries to install the versions from testing. I have used this method many times in the past to specify a set of packages from different releases that won't conflict with each other. Since the upgrade to apt 1.0, I am not able to. [..] Could you include the output of same examples where it fails for you please? We have some testcases that cover this feature and they are still working, so it would be good to know some more details how to reproduce the issue. Thanks, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#746200: apt: Apt-get install doesn't respect /target_release
Package: apt Version: 1.0.2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, With the recent upgrade of apt to 1.0, /target_release flags do not seem to have any effect. For my particuluar situation, I am trying to upgrade gnome to use 3.12. This involves pulling packages from both experimental and unstable. So I attempt to do: `apt-get install gnome-shell/experimental empathy/unstable`, etc. However, when I do this apt seems to completely ignore the flags and instead tries to install the versions from testing. I have used this method many times in the past to specify a set of packages from different releases that won't conflict with each other. Since the upgrade to apt 1.0, I am not able to. -- Wayne Rowcliffe -- Package-specific info: -- apt-config dump -- APT ; APT::Architecture amd64; APT::Build-Essential ; APT::Build-Essential:: build-essential; APT::Install-Recommends 1; APT::Install-Suggests 0; APT::Authentication ; APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM true; APT::NeverAutoRemove ; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^firmware-linux.*; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^linux-firmware$; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^linux-image-3\.10-3-amd64$; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^linux-image-3\.13-1-amd64$; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^linux-headers-3\.10-3-amd64$; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^linux-headers-3\.13-1-amd64$; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^linux-image-extra-3\.10-3-amd64$; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^linux-image-extra-3\.13-1-amd64$; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^linux-signed-image-3\.10-3-amd64$; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^linux-signed-image-3\.13-1-amd64$; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^kfreebsd-image-3\.10-3-amd64$; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^kfreebsd-image-3\.13-1-amd64$; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^kfreebsd-headers-3\.10-3-amd64$; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^kfreebsd-headers-3\.13-1-amd64$; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^gnumach-image-3\.10-3-amd64$; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^gnumach-image-3\.13-1-amd64$; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^.*-modules-3\.10-3-amd64$; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^.*-modules-3\.13-1-amd64$; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^.*-kernel-3\.10-3-amd64$; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^.*-kernel-3\.13-1-amd64$; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^linux-backports-modules-.*-3\.10-3-amd64$; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^linux-backports-modules-.*-3\.13-1-amd64$; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^postgresql-; APT::VersionedKernelPackages ; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: linux-image; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: linux-headers; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: linux-image-extra; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: linux-signed-image; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: kfreebsd-image; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: kfreebsd-headers; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: gnumach-image; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: .*-modules; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: .*-kernel; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: linux-backports-modules-.*; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections ; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: metapackages; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: restricted/metapackages; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: universe/metapackages; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: multiverse/metapackages; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: oldlibs; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: restricted/oldlibs; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: universe/oldlibs; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: multiverse/oldlibs; APT::Periodic ; APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists 1; APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages 0; APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval 0; APT::Update ; APT::Update::Post-Invoke ; APT::Update::Post-Invoke:: touch /var/lib/apt/periodic/update-success-stamp 2/dev/null || true; APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success ; APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success:: /usr/bin/test -e /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.PackageKit.service /usr/bin/test -S /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket /usr/bin/gdbus call --system --dest org.freedesktop.PackageKit --object-path /org/freedesktop/PackageKit --timeout 4 --method org.freedesktop.PackageKit.StateHasChanged cache-update /dev/null; /bin/echo /dev/null; APT::Archives ; APT::Archives::MaxAge 30; APT::Archives::MinAge 2; APT::Archives::MaxSize 500; APT::Architectures ; APT::Architectures:: amd64; APT::Architectures:: i386; APT::Compressor ; APT::Compressor::. ; APT::Compressor::.::Name .; APT::Compressor::.::Extension ; APT::Compressor::.::Binary ; APT::Compressor::.::Cost 1; APT::Compressor::gzip ; APT::Compressor::gzip::Name gzip; APT::Compressor::gzip::Extension .gz; APT::Compressor::gzip::Binary gzip; APT::Compressor::gzip::Cost 2; APT::Compressor::gzip::CompressArg ; APT::Compressor::gzip::CompressArg:: -9n; APT::Compressor::gzip::UncompressArg ; APT::Compressor::gzip::UncompressArg:: -d; APT::Compressor::bzip2 ; APT::Compressor::bzip2::Name bzip2; APT::Compressor::bzip2::Extension .bz2; APT::Compressor::bzip2::Binary bzip2; APT::Compressor::bzip2::Cost 3; APT::Compressor::bzip2::CompressArg ; APT::Compressor::bzip2::CompressArg:: -9; APT::Compressor::bzip2::UncompressArg ; APT::Compressor::bzip2::UncompressArg:: -d; APT::Compressor::xz ; APT::Compressor::xz::Name xz; APT::Compressor::xz::Extension .xz; APT::Compressor::xz::Binary xz;
