Re: apt-get: why massive upgrade despite pinning everything to stable?

2015-11-22 Thread Kynn Jones
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Martin Read wrote: > On 20/11/15 15:07, Kynn Jones wrote: >> >> Also, I set the contents of my `/etc/apt/preferences` file to this >> (the file was empty before): >> >> Package: * >>Pin: release a=stable > > > Looking at the

apt-get: why massive upgrade despite pinning everything to stable?

2015-11-20 Thread Kynn Jones
OK, I start with my 100% `stable` (`jessie`) system up-to-date. IOW, after `apt-get update`, `apt-get upgrade` reports that there are no candidates for upgrading: % sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done

Re: apt-get: why massive upgrade despite pinning everything to stable?

2015-11-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:07:49AM -0500, Kynn Jones wrote: OK, I start with my 100% `stable` (`jessie`) system up-to-date. IOW, after `apt-get update`, `apt-get upgrade` reports that there are no candidates for upgrading: % sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building

Re: apt-get: why massive upgrade despite pinning everything to stable?

2015-11-20 Thread Martin Read
On 20/11/15 15:07, Kynn Jones wrote: Also, I set the contents of my `/etc/apt/preferences` file to this (the file was empty before): Package: * Pin: release a=stable Looking at the Debian wiki's page on APT preferences[1] and comparing to your file, I notice that you haven't

Re: apt-get: why massive upgrade despite pinning everything to stable?

2015-11-20 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 04:20:29PM +, Martin Read wrote: [...] > Just so you know, this is a discouraged[2] (and completely > unsupported) configuration. > [2] https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Don.27t_make_a_FrankenDebian This is