On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:31:46 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > * I'm sure this is not a problem of the package, the package is not > > doing anything else than having a version, the handling of upgrades > > etc. is handled by apt* and friends. > I figured as much; I'm just trying to understand why I only see this > problem with this particular package.
Thanks for your quick reply. And I'm also curious to find out what's happening here :) > > * I'm not surprised that aptitude offers an upgrade; in my experience > > packages from a mirror have precedence over locally installed > > packages, even if they have the same version. > Everything's both localhost and from the mirror; aptitude is pointed > toward an approx installation running on localhost. Ok. > > * The interesting thing now is why the upgrade doesn't happen; some > > random thoughts: Do you have some pinning in /etc/apt/preferences{,.d/*}? > No. Ok. > > Does an aptitude update change anything? Doesn apt-get behave the > No change after repeated updates. Same with apt-get. Ok. Hm, any difference with upgrade/dist-upgrade/reinstall? > > same way as aptitude? What happens if you exchange localhost with > > some "real" mirror? > Same. Ok. > So, in summary: > My system endlessly tries to upgrade the package to the same version, > even after repeated updating, with both apt and aptitude, no pinning, > and even when cutting approx out of the loop and using a mirror > directly. Thanks for trying all these options, TBH, I'm running out of ideas ... Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG Key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Spider Murphy Gang: Mit'n Frosch im Hois und Schwammerl in die Knia
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