Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-30 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/30/2014 04:05 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 29 iul 14, 22:52:15, The Wanderer wrote: > >> >> Package: removal-prevention >> Pin: version 1.0 >> Pin-Priority: 1001 >> >> >> produces no change in behavior; dist-upgrade s

Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 29 iul 14, 22:52:15, The Wanderer wrote: > > > Package: removal-prevention > Pin: version 1.0 > Pin-Priority: 1001 > > > produces no change in behavior; dist-upgrade still wants to remove > removal-prevention, and the packages it depends on. > > Similar things happen wit

Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-29 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/29/2014 05:30 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 29 iul 14, 08:36:48, The Wanderer wrote: > >> root@apologia:/home/wanderer# apt-cache show removal-prevention >> Package: removal-prevention >> Status: install ok installed >> Priority: require

Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 29 iul 14, 08:36:48, The Wanderer wrote: > root@apologia:/home/wanderer# apt-cache show removal-prevention > Package: removal-prevention > Status: install ok installed > Priority: required > Section: misc > Installed-Size: 26 > Maintainer: Andrew Buehler > Architecture: all > Version: 1.0 >

Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-29 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/29/2014 04:53 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 28 iul 14, 22:47:56, The Wanderer wrote: > >> I just now tried that as well (in combination with 'Priority: >> required'), and it produced the same result: apt-get wanted to >> remove the metap

Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 28 iul 14, 22:47:56, The Wanderer wrote: > > I just now tried that as well (in combination with 'Priority: > required'), and it produced the same result: apt-get wanted to remove > the metapackage on dist-upgrade. Could you please post the full output for that and 'apt-cache show' and 'ap

Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-28 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/28/2014 03:43 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 27 iul 14, 16:07:34, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 07/20/2014 09:10 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >> Yes, even with 'Priority: essential'. Possibly that's a side effect >> of something else (the

Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 27 iul 14, 16:07:34, The Wanderer wrote: > On 07/20/2014 09:10 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Yes, even with 'Priority: essential'. Possibly that's a side effect of > something else (the default of 'Section: misc', maybe?), but I have > nothing to really support that idea. Essential is not

Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-27 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/20/2014 09:10 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 20 iul 14, 08:13:30, The Wanderer wrote: >> >> What I was aiming at with the version-number wildcard is to let a >> single pinning stanza work repeatedly, for different fglrx-driver >> versions

Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-27 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/21/2014 08:38 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 07/21/2014 06:18 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Du, 20 iul 14, 08:13:30, The Wanderer wrote: > >>> What I was aiming at with the version-number wildcard is to let a >>> single pinning stanza work

Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-21 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/21/2014 06:18 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 20 iul 14, 08:13:30, The Wanderer wrote: > >> What I was aiming at with the version-number wildcard is to let a >> single pinning stanza work repeatedly, for different fglrx-driver >> versions,

Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 20 iul 14, 08:13:30, The Wanderer wrote: > > What I was aiming at with the version-number wildcard is to let a single > pinning stanza work repeatedly, for different fglrx-driver versions, > without need for manual intervention. Would it be acceptable to pin to a release? Something like P

Re: tweak Aptitude to not suggest removals as first option (was ... Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?)

2014-07-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 21 July 2014 01:46:07 Ric Moore wrote: > What > is worse, I'm running in my Ubuntu partition to have a working desktop. > That cuts a fella. :( Ric :-( Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: tweak Aptitude to not suggest removals as first option (was ... Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?)

2014-07-20 Thread Ric Moore
On 07/20/2014 11:53 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 08:39:16AM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Andrei POPESCU writes: Note: I'd probably have the same problem with nvidia-driver, but my aptitude is not suggesting removals as first option anymore due to: // tweak Aptitude to not

tweak Aptitude to not suggest removals as first option (was ... Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?)

2014-07-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 08:39:16AM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > > Note: I'd probably have the same problem with nvidia-driver, but my > > aptitude is not suggesting removals as first option anymore due to: > > > > // tweak Aptitude to not suggest removals as first opti

Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-20 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Andrei POPESCU writes: > Note: I'd probably have the same problem with nvidia-driver, but my > aptitude is not suggesting removals as first option anymore due to: > > // tweak Aptitude to not suggest removals as first option > Aptitude::ProblemResolver::SolutionCost "removals"; Whether it helps

Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 20 iul 14, 08:13:30, The Wanderer wrote: > > What I was aiming at with the version-number wildcard is to let a single > pinning stanza work repeatedly, for different fglrx-driver versions, > without need for manual intervention. Right. I just thought of an entirely different approach: use

Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-20 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/20/2014 05:54 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 19 iul 14, 21:58:13, The Wanderer wrote: > >> Is there a way to tell apt to calculate its dependency resolution >> so as to avoid removing a particular package, without limiting that >> package

Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-20 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/20/2014 01:37 AM, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 21:58:13 -0400 The Wanderer > wrote: > >> when an X not compatible with the newest available fglrx-driver is >> available, 'apt-get dist-upgrade' still tries to remove >> fglrx

Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 19 iul 14, 21:58:13, The Wanderer wrote: > Is there a way to tell apt to calculate its dependency resolution so as > to avoid removing a particular package, without limiting that package to > a particular version? This is an interesting problem. I'd try pinning the installed version to the

Re: Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-19 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 21:58:13 -0400 The Wanderer wrote: > when an X not compatible with the newest > available fglrx-driver is available, 'apt-get dist-upgrade' still tries > to remove fglrx-driver. Then why don't you pin X? -- http://markorandjelovic.hopto.org Please make your donation for hu

Pin package to "any version, don't remove"?

2014-07-19 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Is there a way to tell apt to calculate its dependency resolution so as to avoid removing a particular package, without limiting that package to a particular version? Specifically, I'd like to pin fglrx-driver to "installed" (but not necessarily to