Op 25-05-17 om 23:36 schreef Sijis Aviles:
It seems that my qualifier of '=' isn't working as I expect. What am I doing
wrong?
You appear to assume you can tell apt to ignore a newer version of one
package by specifying a previous version of that package as a dependency
of another package. You can't.
apt will always go for the most recent version mentioned in the package
list*), unless you explicitely tell it not to in the apt-get install
command for that package. In this case apt wants to get app-configs
1.0-6~bbbb, notices my-app needs 1.0-5~aaa and tells you it can't
install my-app because of that.
I'm not sure what you're aiming for with those two versions of
app-configs. You can only have one of them installed at a time anyway.
If the machine you want to install my-app on doesn't need 1.0.6~bbbb,
you could try
apt-get install my-app app-configs=1.0-5~aaa
You may have to 'hold' app-configs after that, because apt-get upgrade
will 'see' the newer version and may want to remove my-app again (I'm
not absolutely sure about this, as I'm tracking Testing so I always use
dist-upgrade - which definitely will remove my-app).
Regards,
Frank
*) I'm ignoring 'priority pinning' here, as we're talking about a single
repository
