Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 20:12:34 +0200, Stefan Bellon wrote:
> > This results in the following output: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-cache policy libstdc++6 > > libstdc++6: > > Installed: 4.1.1-11 > > Candidate: 4.1.1-11 > > Package pin: 4.1.1-11 > > Version table: > > 4.1.1-15 1001 > > 500 http://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Packages > > *** 4.1.1-11 1001 > > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > > > > Why is the version 4.1.1-15 at priority 1001 as well? It looks to me > > like this is the problem. > > I think that is normal; I have not used pinning in a while, though > (since moving to aptitude completely). The only important part is the > line "Package pin: 4.1.1-11" which means that apt has accepted your > preferences file and pinned the package to the specified version. I am > starting to suspect that pinning such an important library to an > obsolete version might simply confuse apt(itude)'s update logic beyond > recovery. Wow, that's strange. I think you may be quite right, but I see no excuse for that. Having an old Debian relase and mixing that with a later release means using "obsolete" versions of important libraries as well. If this is really the case, then I'd consider this a problem with apt. > OK, I propose plan B: > > aptitude search -F "%p" '~U~b' | aptitude hold $(cat) > > The first command should produce a list of all upgradable but broken > packages and the second one should put them all on hold. Maybe that > will work. When I did that, then libstdc++6 was not put on hold. So before I did the above, I manually did # aptitude hold libstdc++6 and then your suggestion. But afterwards there were still 28 broken packages that could not be put on hold. I think this may be the reason why apt's own pinning logic cannot resolve the issue. I'll go plan C then ... manually upgrading individual packages if it's possible ... :-} But thanks for all your help, I learnt a lot about apt's and aptitude's command line usage. -- Stefan Bellon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
