ocl wrote:
Paul J Stevens wrote on 2004-11-26 14:41:
ocl wrote:
Hi,
I am new to this list.
I wanted to install the latest available Debian packages
but Debian keeps trying to install the already-in-distro
versions. And, unless either I use apt pinning to install
everything from experimental for the whole Debian, or I
install the package manually, it seems there is no way I
can install DbMail v2.x --of course,
I don't understand your problem.
If you add the experimental repository to your sources.list and you
run apt-get install dbmail-mysql doesn't it pickup the experimental
package? It works for me.
This is the /etc/preferences file I am using.
Package: dbmail
Pin: version 2*
Pin-Priority: 1500
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 1100
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 1000
Package: qemu
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 1500
Package: openvpn
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 1500
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 600
Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 60
As you see, I have apt-pinned 2 other apps (openvpn and qemu)
from 'unstable' branch. The rest are ordered as seen (testing,
stable, unstable, experimental --in that order).
With dbmail, no amount of apt-pinning helps. Debian insists
that dbmail v1.2.9.1 be installed. Why? Basicall because
trivial repos are not apt-pinnable.
I hope that helps explain my difficulties. To overcome that,
I would probably have to forego all my prefs and expose my
installation to things from all of the experimental branch;
which I --I hope understandably-- consider rather risky.
I don't have any pinning setup though, so maybe you have to be
explicit and use apt-get install -t experimental dbmail-mysql
I have tried that, with
apt-get install -t experimental dbmail-pgsql
or
apt-get --reinstall install -t experimental dbmail-pgsql
it gets back to me saying this:
dbmail-pgsql is already the newest version.
and the version in question is v1.2.9.1
i.e., it refuses to even consider anything else.
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I checked the Packages.gz from experimental and didn't find any
dbmail package
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