Package: cupt
Version: 1.0.0~beta1
Severity: important
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It appears that cupt is not recognizing or respecting apt pinning
preferences defined in /etc/apt/preferences. This is causing major
problems for mixed systems, since essentially upgrades are not
possible.
Below are my current pinning setting (from /etc/apt/preferences) and
the results of a policy query from apt-cache and cupt. Notice that
the unstable packages are pinned correctly to 200 by apt-cache, but
incorrectly as 701 in cupt:
servo:~ 0$ cat /etc/apt/preferences
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 700
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 500
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 200
Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 1
servo:~ 0$ apt-cache policy dpkg
dpkg:
Installed: 1.15.3.1
Candidate: 1.15.3.1
Version table:
1.15.4 0
200 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
*** 1.15.3.1 0
500 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu testing/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
servo:~ 0$ cupt policy dpkg
dpkg:
Installed: 1.15.3.1
Candidate: 1.15.4
Version table:
1.15.4 701
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main (signed)
*** 1.15.3.1 501
/var/lib/dpkg/status installed/ (unsigned)
http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ testing/main (signed)
servo:~ 0$
As I mentioned, this makes a "cupt upgrade" impossible for me right
now, as it tries to upgrade my entire system to unstable, which is
obviously not desired.
Thanks so much. I'm definitely looking forward to using cupt more
when all the bugs are sorted out. It looks like a good tool. I like
the simplified interface to all the needed apt functions.
jamie.
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages cupt depends on:
ii libcupt-perl 1.0.0~beta1 alternative front-end for dpkg --
ii perl 5.10.0-25 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sensible-utils 0.0.1 Utilities for sensible alternative
cupt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages cupt suggests:
ii libterm-readline-gnu-perl 1.19-2 Perl extension for the GNU Readlin
- -- no debconf information
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