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I have a Lucid system installed, but I wanted to test the kernels from
Maverick. To accomplish this, I added the Maverick repositories to my
/etc/apt/sources.list file, but I setup apt pinning to only get kernel
updates from Maverick. To setup the apt pinning I created a file:
/etc/apt/preferences.d/maverick-pin with the following contents:
Package: linux-image-generic-pae
Pin: release o=Ubuntu,a=maverick
Pin-Priority: 500
Package: *
Pin: release o=Ubuntu,a=maverick
Pin-Priority: 400
When I ran "apt-get dist-upgrade" it correctly showed that a new kernel
version was available and I installed it. After the upgrade I ran "apt-
get upgrade -uV" again to make sure I was completely up to date. Here
was the output:
$ sudo apt-get upgrade -uV
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
I launch Synaptic to search for a new package to install, and it tells
me that I have many updates available, but it seems to be ignoring the
pinning rules I've setup.
One package it tells me I should upgrade is "acpid". When I run "apt-
cache policy acpid" it shows me that there is a newer version in
Maverick, but because of the pinning rules that newer version should not
be considered for upgrade:
acpid:
Installed: 1.0.10-5ubuntu2.1
Candidate: 1.0.10-5ubuntu2.1
Version table:
1.0.10-5ubuntu4 0
400 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main Packages
*** 1.0.10-5ubuntu2.1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.0.10-5ubuntu2 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
** Affects: synaptic (Ubuntu)
Importance: Medium
Status: Fix Released
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Synaptic doesn't honor pinning rules in /etc/apt/preferences.d/
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/628818
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