[Solved] Mixing LMDE and SID, problems with APT preferences

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c.monty

[Solved] Mixing LMDE and SID, problems with APT preferences

Post by c.monty »

Hi!

I have slightly modified APT Preferences file official-package-repositories.pref

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[130]user@pc1 ~ $ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/official-package-repositories.pref 
Package: *
Pin: release o=linuxmint
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: origin packages.linuxmint.com
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing
#Pin: release o=Debian,a=wheezy
Pin-Priority: 600

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=wheezy-backports
Pin-Priority: 500

Package: *
Pin: release o=Ubuntu
Pin-Priority: 400

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=unstable
#Pin: release o=Debian,a=sid
Pin-Priority: 100
However, the Pin-Priority is not considered when installing software packages:

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user@pc1 ~ $ apt-cache policy network-manager
network-manager:
  Installiert:           0.9.8.0-5
  Installationskandidat: 0.9.10.0-1
  Versionstabelle:
     0.9.10.0-1 0
        500 http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/debian/ sid/main i386 Packages
 *** 0.9.8.0-5 0
        500 http://linuxmint-apt.killerhorse.eu/debian/latest/ testing/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.9.4.0-10 0
        500 http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages
Here, I would have expected the corresponding Pin-Priority = 100 for sid. Instead Pin-Priority = 500 for sid is used.

How comes this?

THX
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killer de bug

Re: Mixing LMDE and SID, problems with APT preferences

Post by killer de bug »

Can you please use the same name in the preference file and in the sources.list file (sid in both or unstable in both).

And can you post the result of

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inxi -r
please? I am really afraid by this priority given to Ubuntu to be honest.
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kurotsugi

Re: Mixing LMDE and SID, problems with APT preferences

Post by kurotsugi »

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Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 50
this one always work on most cases. I hope you really know what you did on your system. I'd recommend you also change these lines.

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Package: *
Package: *
Pin: release o=Ubuntu
Pin-Priority: 400

#change it into
Package: *
Pin: origin <the ubuntu's repo address>
#lower the priority to 100 or lower
Pin-Priority: 100
it will avoid install ubuntu packages unless you told apt to do so with "-t" option.
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c.monty

Re: Mixing LMDE and SID, problems with APT preferences

Post by c.monty »

killer de bug wrote:Can you please use the same name in the preference file and in the sources.list file (sid in both or unstable in both).
done

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user@pc1 ~ $ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/official-package-repositories.pref 
Package: *
Pin: release o=linuxmint
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: origin packages.linuxmint.com
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing
Pin-Priority: 600

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=wheezy-backports
Pin-Priority: 500

Package: *
Pin: release o=Ubuntu
Pin-Priority: 400

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=sid
Pin-Priority: 100
killer de bug wrote:And can you post the result of

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inxi -r
please? I am really afraid by this priority given to Ubuntu to be honest.
sure

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user@pc1 ~ $ inxi -r
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
           deb http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib
           deb-src http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib
           deb http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/debian/ wheezy-backports main non-free contrib
           deb-src http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/debian/ wheezy-backports main non-free contrib
           deb http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
           deb-src http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/removed.list
           deb http://archive.removed/ubuntu raring-removed apps
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hstr.list
           deb http://www.clfh.de/debian wheezy main
           deb-src http://www.clfh.de/debian wheezy main
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
           deb http://packages.linuxmint.com debian main upstream import
           deb http://linuxmint-apt.killerhorse.eu/debian/latest/ testing main contrib non-free
           deb http://linuxmint-apt.killerhorse.eu/debian/latest/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
           deb http://linuxmint-apt.killerhorse.eu/debian/latest/multimedia testing main non-free
           deb http://extra.linuxmint.com debian main
The correction in /etc/apt/preferences.d/official-package-repositories.pref doesn't have any impact, though.

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user@pc1 ~ $ apt-cache policy network-manager
network-manager:
  Installiert:           0.9.8.0-5
  Installationskandidat: 0.9.8.0-5
  Versionstabelle:
     0.9.10.0-1 0
        500 http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/debian/ sid/main i386 Packages
 *** 0.9.8.0-5 0
        600 http://linuxmint-apt.killerhorse.eu/debian/latest/ testing/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.9.4.0-10 0
        500 http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages
user@pc1 ~ $ apt-cache policy cinnamon
cinnamon:
  Installiert:           2.0.14+lmde
  Installationskandidat: 2.0.14+lmde
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 2.0.14+lmde 0
        700 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.7.4-2.2+b2 0
        500 http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/debian/ sid/main i386 Packages
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kurotsugi

Re: Mixing LMDE and SID, problems with APT preferences

Post by kurotsugi »

check whether if you have duplicated setting in /etc/apt
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killer de bug

Re: Mixing LMDE and SID, problems with APT preferences

Post by killer de bug »

c.monty wrote: The correction in /etc/apt/preferences.d/official-package-repositories.pref doesn't have any impact, though.
That's normal!
Your preference file is for official-package-repositories

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/etc/apt/preferences.d/official-package-repositories.pref
And your repo shows that official-package-repositories has only LMDE repo:

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           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
           deb http://packages.linuxmint.com debian main upstream import
           deb http://linuxmint-apt.killerhorse.eu/debian/latest/ testing main contrib non-free
           deb http://linuxmint-apt.killerhorse.eu/debian/latest/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
           deb http://linuxmint-apt.killerhorse.eu/debian/latest/multimedia testing main non-free
           deb http://extra.linuxmint.com debian main
Preferences about Debian repo are irrelevant here. And thus don't apply.

Your Debian repo are here:

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  Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
           deb http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib
           deb-src http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib
           deb http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/debian/ wheezy-backports main non-free contrib
           deb-src http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/debian/ wheezy-backports main non-free contrib
           deb http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
           deb-src http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
And for this file, you don't have any preferences set. Thus normal ones apply.

For this stuff, I may be wrong, but if it's for Ubuntu, I would be cautious :)

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Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/removed.list
           deb http://archive.removed/ubuntu raring-removed apps
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kurotsugi

Re: Mixing LMDE and SID, problems with APT preferences

Post by kurotsugi »

That's normal!
Your preference file is for official-package-repositories
no it doesn't. apt doesn't work in that way. you can rename the files into <whatever you like>.pref and it should work globally.
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c.monty

Re: Mixing LMDE and SID, problems with APT preferences

Post by c.monty »

I disagree, too.

The usage of APT and preferences is independent of the file name used.
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kurotsugi

Re: Mixing LMDE and SID, problems with APT preferences

Post by kurotsugi »

if you don't have any other pref files. the source of the error is "Pin: release o=Debian,a=wheezy-backports". your pref is confusing the apt. you need to specify between debian's branch and delete o=Debian from all pref codes. the correct entry should be something like this

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Package: *
Pin: release a=wheezy #or stable
Pin-Priority: 50

Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 500

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 50
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