-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 07/21/2014 08:38 AM, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 07/21/2014 06:18 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Du, 20 iul 14, 08:13:30, The Wanderer wrote: > >>> What I was aiming at with the version-number wildcard is to let a >>> single pinning stanza work repeatedly, for different >>> fglrx-driver versions, without need for manual intervention. > >> Would it be acceptable to pin to a release? Something like > >> Package: fglrx-driver >> Pin: release a=unstable >> Priority: 990 >> Explanation: ... > >> 990 is the priority of the target release (as per >> apt_preferences(5)). > > It very well might be. I'll try this next time I get a chance > (although *certainly* not with unstable). Just to report back: I just tried this, and it didn't work. 'apt-get dist-upgrade' still wants to remove fglrx-driver. Even 'apt-get dist-upgrade fglrx-{driver,control}', which I used to dist-upgrade without removing the driver last time, now no longer works; apt-get doesn't figure out that it can resolve the dependencies by not upgrading xserver-xorg-core, unless I explicitly hold (or pin) that package to its current version. Which is another version-specific pin, exactly what I was trying to avoid. There are various approaches which look like they *should* work for this - - logic-, semantics-, and syntax-wise - but as far as I've been able to find, apparently none of them do... (aptitude doesn't work much better; it can be made to figure out that dependency-resolution path, but not before being told "no" on around a dozen suggested solutions involving removing fglrx-driver.) - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJT1VuNAAoJEASpNY00KDJr8ckQAIqtMDseLs5pUSihljSjLT2+ UbUVy9Cif4p8PnEHccqQHTdNiYHg/xsmG7hoce2sgFb0AeVq/ROpf7JYsnQejb9q nbnjfOhUZQtFYwHWfx2SJQPZSx/h8/wBZGdrD3hXtIzshAC/Sca5ZbNCF2re68op k4brF2LO9ccDPKlLkzhjHuMJanJb7bnx6Lg4+IB0CTvgESGMp0hZfN0rqCDf3DS/ yWdpOJ2Sh8iZeKQ51nWtj6lMwyUxyyTYFlunSHwQi7MCv3/SUWLkusBYaGioNecF OU5B5ufj1mPXDbiD3D6d5k4rgl/LGKS8DqMKWOSOol8cXM0tCTw1rdKatubtp6T8 bM2fyDnTEx7z0aCgVwNIRRaPAMW3Zo5fI4BGvZ84ueUGSxsPAaTG28Lv/ZsynozL 507DnZ6FqovZcomv0s9Uua1ooDFAubE1QNH6nfAERc+yMcNH9A9J5sNcETH3Vb54 c6qLVVvgKO+KaBMhLV5t5GQtFBaiBtuki3JSbSCURBOueOrA+TdaYhyrHkUWk9VJ LyL5A9kcI+/nj1/IZQm1Ez10kIhIVmI4mXn1fr+nG2xM8Ry2vQtxH89VOlIBS/WD C0ZEpJdK1RSOdKb1IzWFotNnPJRLrMLpW8fyIBnHtM6CyoPqm5nCBv+VpNC27N3F HX19Pen+8OfNfPqgJ1MH =Zeyv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53d55b8d.8050...@fastmail.fm