Thank you Andrei! You are very kind. "SOLVED" as far as Iceweasel is concerned. "partly" because I'm still struggling with understanding of pinning.
On Sunday 24 June 2012 15:36:15 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 24 iun 12, 14:20:47, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > apt-cache policy iceweasel > > > > iceweasel: > > Installed: 10.0.5esr-1 > > Candidate: 10.0.5esr-1 > > Package pin: 13.0.1-1 > > Package: wine > > Version table: > > 13.0.1-1 700 > > > > 600 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental/main i386 > > Packages 600 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ experimental/main > > i386 Packages > > This looks like you have two sources for experimental, get rid of one. I did now. > > > *** 10.0.5esr-1 700 > > > > 1000 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages > > > > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > > > > I think I got the pinning wrong I think I got the understanding wrong too. > > The values have specific meaning, it's not enough to have just some > value bigger than the other one. I started reading up on it. > > > /etc/apt/preferences > > > > Package: wine > > Pin: release l=WineHQ APT Repository > > Pin-Priority: 1000 > > > > Package: * > > Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing > > Pin-Priority: 1000 > > A pin bigger than 990 and smaller or equal to 1000 has a special > meaning, see 'man apt_preferences'. Try downgrading this to 990. OK, I did that - see file contents below > > > Package: * > > Pin: origin www.deb-multimedia.org > > Pin-Priority: 900 > > > > Package: * > > Pin: release o=Debian,a=squeeze > > Pin-Priority: 800 > > > > #Package: * > > #Pin: release a=testing > > #Pin-Priority: 700 > > > > Package: iceweasel > > Pin: release a=experimental > > Pin-Priority: 700 > > > > Package: * > > Pin: release a=experimental > > Pin-Priority: 600 > > > > Package: * > > Pin: release a=sid > > Pin-Priority: 500 > > > > Package: * > > Pin: release a=unstable > > Pin-Priority: 400 > > Here you have two pins for the same archive (sid is unstable and will > not change) Outch! I knew it, I knew it! > > > Package: * > > Pin: release o=Debian,a=lenny > > Pin-Priority: 200 > > Do you need lenny? No. > > > Package: * > > Pin: origin www.ibiblio.org > > Pin-Priority: 610 Cruft > > > > Package: * > > Pin: origin www.argon.org > > Pin-Priority: 620 Cruft > > Generally I advocate much simpler pinning, especially if you are not > familiar with it. I agree > > If you would explain what exactly you are trying to achieve (i.e. which > release do you want to use in general, for which packages do you need > exceptions and why, etc.) then we might suggest something much simpler > and more maintainable. Don't forget to also post all your sources. Yep. See below, please. > > Kind regards, > Andrei What I want: Stay with Wheezy when it's become Stable. At least for a while. Get my packages mainly from Debian official. Get from multimedia what I cannot get from Debian official. Stay tuned with Skype Stay tuned with Firefox (Iceweasel) Get Google-maps What I did after reading your counsel: Delete cruft from sources.list and preferences then aptitude -t experimental install iceweasel What happened: Iceweasel 13.0.1 was installed. Me: happy, hooray! After making the changes apt-cache policy iceweasel looks like this and I managed to install Iceweasel 13.0.1 iceweasel: Installed: 13.0.1-1 Candidate: 13.0.1-1 Package pin: 13.0.1-1 Version table: *** 13.0.1-1 700 1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ experimental/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 10.0.5esr-1 700 990 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages My /etc/apt/sources.list is now: # # want to stay on Wheezy after it becomes stable ... at least for awhile deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib # skype official site deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free #deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ testing non-free #tovid (not using tovid at the present since devede 3.22.0 is working fine) #deb http://tovid.sourceforge.net/download/debian testing contrib #deb-src http://tovid.sourceforge.net/download/debian testing contrib # proxy (gave that up some time ago) # deb http://192.168.0.40:9999/debian testing main contrib non-free # kernel (no need) # deb http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel/ trunk main ## Google software repository: ## http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/apt.html ## reminder: (wget -q -O - https://dl- ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add - ) ## or (gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv A040830F7FAC5991 && \ gpg --export --armor A040830F7FAC5991 | sudo apt-key add - ) ## Quoted cause of index failure (who was mentioning this??) deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ testing non-free ## Opera webbrowser: #deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ testing non-free # Couldn't find the phantom anyway ## Tor: # deb http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor testing main #Yes I am one, I know, but not using Tor for browsing ## Debian Multimedia - Christian Marrillat repository: # now in /etc/apt/sources.d/ #deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org testing main #deb-src http://www.deb-multimedia.org testing main ## All experimental repositories: ## Debian experimental mirrors: #deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org experimental main # don't know if this helps much ## All unstable repositories: # nix - nada - zilch /etc/apt/sources.d has the following files: deb-multimedia.org.list google-earth.list iceweasel.experimental.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deb-multimedia.org.list deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ wheezy main non-free /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-earth.list deb http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb/ stable main # this gets Priority 100 automatically if not mentioned in preferences, right? /etc/apt/sources.list.d/iceweasel.experimental.list deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free /etc/apt/preferences: Pin: release l=WineHQ APT Repository Pin-Priority: 1000 # do I need this? I'm downloading and installing packages from \ http://dev.carbon-project.org/debian/wine-unstable/ Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing Pin-Priority: 990 Package: * Pin: origin www.deb-multimedia.org Pin-Priority: 900 # Want to get from multimedia what I cannot get from Debian official Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=squeeze Pin-Priority: 800 # Do I use anything off Squeeze? To my knowledge not ... Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 700 # Why testing again? Package: iceweasel Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: 700 # Do I need this? I'm only using iceweasel from experimental. Package: * Pin: release a=sid Pin-Priority: 500 #Package: * #Pin: origin www.ibiblio.org #Pin-Priority: 610 # no need for packages from ibiblio at the present Thanky you again. You got me going and this on a Sunday night. Kind regards, Eike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201206241721.17891.zp6...@gmx.net
