Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

2002-08-27 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 06:21, Brian May wrote: I suspect this is a more general problem with apt-get that it assumes that if two versions of the same package are available from different sources, then both packages will be exactly the same. As such, it will always use the Packages entry from

Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

2002-08-27 Thread Brian May
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 02:36:39PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: The pins are used to determine which of all the available versions for the package are candidates for installation, in Ludovic's case both the woody and unstable versions are candidates (both have pin now). In my case,

Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

2002-08-23 Thread Ludovic Rousseau
Le mercredi 21 août 2002 à 13:28:30, Brian May a écrit: Hello, Hi, I have just being playing around with apt-proxy, and noticed something weird. Every time I run apt-get, it wants to upgrade the packages it just upgraded 5 seconds ago (it only happens on this computer, too): [..]

Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

2002-08-21 Thread Brian May
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 09:50:21PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: The entires in Packages files and those in the .deb must match exactly (ie byte for byte), otherwise it sees them as different packages. Since dpkg manipulates the status file and only has information from the .deb there is no

Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

2002-08-21 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Brian May wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 09:50:21PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: The entires in Packages files and those in the .deb must match exactly (ie byte for byte), otherwise it sees them as different packages. Since dpkg manipulates the status file and only

Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

2002-08-21 Thread Brian May
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:19:13PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: apt-get knows that it has to get the file from: deb http://snoopy.apana.org.au/~ftp/debian woody main and the md5sum of the Packages file from this source, as quoted before matches exactly. Er, the md5sum of the deb

Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

2002-08-21 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Brian May wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:19:13PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: apt-get knows that it has to get the file from: deb http://snoopy.apana.org.au/~ftp/debian woody main and the md5sum of the Packages file from this source, as quoted before

Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

2002-08-21 Thread Brian May
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:18:09AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: If you do apt-cache show kerberos4kth1 after installing and look very carefully you will see that the two listed 1.1-11-2 stanzas are subtly different. The problem is that your package file does not accurately reflect the

Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

2002-08-21 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Brian May wrote: I ran dpkg-scanpackages on it myself, and haven't updated anything since (besides, if I had updated something, the MD5sum check would fail wouldn't it?) Nope. Description: Dummy library package for Kerberos4 From KTH. This is a dummy package. It

Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

2002-08-21 Thread Brian May
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 03:44:54PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Description: Dummy library package for Kerberos4 From KTH. This is a dummy package. It should be safe to remove it. installed-size: 76 source: krb4 If you mean the spacing is different, that is my fault (I use vim in

Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

2002-08-20 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Brian May wrote: Can't apt realize that if it is going to install a package from source X, it should use the Packages entry from source X too? The entires in Packages files and those in the .deb must match exactly (ie byte for byte), otherwise it sees them as different