Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

2002-08-27 Thread Brian May
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 02:36:39PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > The pins are used to determine which of all the available versions for > the package are candidates for installation, in Ludovic's case both the > woody and unstable versions are candidates (both have pin > now). In my case, th

Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

2002-08-27 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 06:21, Brian May wrote: > I suspect this is a more general problem with apt-get that it assumes > that if two versions of the same package are available from different > sources, then both packages will be exactly the same. As such, it will > always use the Packages entry fro

Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

2002-08-26 Thread Brian May
On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 07:12:28PM +0200, Ludovic Rousseau wrote: > Try to reorder your sources.list file. So another words, it is not sufficient to simply disable an apt-get source line by giving it a priority of -1, I must also delete that line from sources.list too? (as normally this entry is

Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

2002-08-23 Thread Ludovic Rousseau
Le mercredi 21 août 2002 à 13:28:30, Brian May a écrit: > Hello, Hi, > I have just being playing around with apt-proxy, and noticed something > weird. Every time I run apt-get, it wants to upgrade the packages it > just upgraded 5 seconds ago (it only happens on this computer, too): [..] > scro

Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

2002-08-21 Thread Brian May
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 03:44:54PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > Description: Dummy library package for Kerberos4 From KTH. > > This is a dummy package. It should be safe to remove it. > > installed-size: 76 > > source: krb4 If you mean the spacing is different, that is my fault (I use vim

Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

2002-08-21 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Brian May wrote: > I ran dpkg-scanpackages on it myself, and haven't updated anything > since (besides, if I had updated something, the MD5sum check would fail > wouldn't it?) Nope. > Description: Dummy library package for Kerberos4 From KTH. > This is a dummy package. It

Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

2002-08-21 Thread Brian May
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:18:09AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > If you do apt-cache show kerberos4kth1 after installing and look very > carefully you will see that the two listed 1.1-11-2 stanzas are subtly > different. The problem is that your package file does not > accurately reflect the cont

Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

2002-08-21 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Brian May wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:19:13PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > apt-get knows that it has to get the file from: > > > > > > deb http://snoopy.apana.org.au/~ftp/debian woody main > > > > > > and the md5sum of the Packages file from this source, as q

Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

2002-08-21 Thread Brian May
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:19:13PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > apt-get knows that it has to get the file from: > > > > deb http://snoopy.apana.org.au/~ftp/debian woody main > > > > and the md5sum of the Packages file from this source, as quoted > > before matches exactly. > > Er, the md5su

Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

2002-08-21 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Brian May wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 09:50:21PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > The entires in Packages files and those in the .deb must match exactly > > (ie byte for byte), otherwise it sees them as different packages. Since > > dpkg manipulates the status file and

Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

2002-08-20 Thread Brian May
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 09:50:21PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > The entires in Packages files and those in the .deb must match exactly > (ie byte for byte), otherwise it sees them as different packages. Since > dpkg manipulates the status file and only has information from the .deb > there is no

Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

2002-08-20 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Brian May wrote: > Can't apt realize that if it is going to install a package from source > X, it should use the Packages entry from source X too? The entires in Packages files and those in the .deb must match exactly (ie byte for byte), otherwise it sees them as different p

apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

2002-08-20 Thread Brian May
Hello, I have just being playing around with apt-proxy, and noticed something weird. Every time I run apt-get, it wants to upgrade the packages it just upgraded 5 seconds ago (it only happens on this computer, too): (note: se_apt-get is the same thing as apt-get, but sets the selinux domain up co