Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.4-4 Severity: important Example:
Version 028stab039.2 is available. | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ LANG=C apt-cache policy ovzkernel-2.6.18-smp | ovzkernel-2.6.18-smp: | Installed: (none) | Candidate: 028stab039.2 | Version table: | 028stab039.2 0 | 500 http://debian.systs.org etch/openvz Packages We tell aptitude to install a different version: | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ LANG=C sudo /usr/bin/aptitude -V install ovzkernel-2.6.18-smp=028stab035.1;echo $? | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree... Done | Reading extended state information | Initializing package states... Done | Reading task descriptions... Done | Building tag database... Done | Unable to find a version "028stab035.1" for the package "ovzkernel-2.6.18-smp" | The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: | linux-image-2.6.18-028stab039.2-ovz-smp [028stab039.2] | The following packages have been kept back: | vzctl [3.0.11-13 -> 3.0.18-1dso1] vzquota [3.0.8-2 -> 3.0.11-1dso1] | The following NEW packages will be installed: | linux-image-2.6.18-028stab039.2-ovz-smp [028stab039.2] | ovzkernel-2.6.18-smp [028stab039.2] | 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. | Need to get 0B/6018kB of archives. After unpacking 12.6MB will be used. | Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n Severity justification: this behaviour makes automatic package management (e.g. using automation tools such as puppet) very hard, as the version specification is basically ignored. apt-get in this situation properly returns an error. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-ovz-686 Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.6.46.4-0.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.4-4 English manual for aptitude, a ter ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

