I can confirm this bug. (or I am doing something completely wrong) summary: I would like to install one package from karmic-proposed and all other packages from karmic, karmic-updates, or karmic-security. I added the karmic-proposed repository to sources, and a pinning block to apt/prferences.d. The command "apt-cache policy" shows the packages from karmic-proposed at a low priority. The command "apt-get upgrade" respects the priorities. The command "aptitude safe-upgrade" does not respect the priorities and attempts to upgrade all packages from karmic-proposed.
As seen below apt-cache policy reports that the package "cups" (chosen for example) should be install/upgraded from the karmic-security archive. The command apt-get upgrade reports that all packages are up to date as expected. The command aptitude safe-upgrade attempts to install 64 news packages which goes against the policy set in apt/preferences.d /local-pin Ubuntu: karmic platform: amd64 All packages up to date from karmic, karmic-updates, karmic-security as of 1 Feb 2010. Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu6 Package: apt Version: 0.7.23.1ubuntu2 /etc/apt/preferences.d/local-pin Package: * Pin: release a=karmic-proposed Pin-Priority: 50 /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic main restricted universe deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-security main restricted universe deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates main restricted universe deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic multiverse deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates multiverse deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security multiverse deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-proposed main multiverse universe $ apt-cache policy cups cups: Installed: 1.4.1-5ubuntu2.1 Candidate: 1.4.1-5ubuntu2.1 Version table: 1.4.1-5ubuntu2.2 0 50 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-proposed/main Packages *** 1.4.1-5ubuntu2.1 0 500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Packages 500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1.4.1-5ubuntu2 0 500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages $ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. sudo aptitude safe-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Resolving dependencies... Resolving dependencies... The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-headers-2.6.31-18{a} linux-headers-2.6.31-18-generic{a} linux-image-2.6.31-18-generic{a} The following packages will be upgraded: aisleriot compiz-core compiz-gnome compiz-plugins compiz-wrapper cups cups-bsd cups-client cups-common cups-ppdc cupsddk devicekit-power glchess glines gnect gnibbles gnobots2 gnome-blackjack gnome-games gnome-games-common gnome-mahjongg gnome-power-manager gnome-sudoku gnometris gnomine gnotravex gnotski grub-common gtali gtk2-engines-pixbuf iagno language-pack-en language-pack-gnome-en libcups2 libcupscgi1 libcupsdriver1 libcupsimage2 libcupsmime1 libcupsppdc1 libdecoration0 libdevkit-power-gobject1 libgail-common libgail18 libgssapi-krb5-2 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libk5crypto3 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0 libxml2 libxml2-utils linux-firmware linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic linux-libc-dev mountall python-libxml2 python-ubuntuone-client python-ubuntuone-storageprotocol same-gnome ubuntuone-client ubuntuone-client-gnome 64 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 82.4MB of archives. After unpacking 200MB will be used. -- Aptitude ignores apt_preferences https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/508545 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
