Public bug reported:
I'm having a unique issue involving repository pinning and apt-get
reporting an incorrect repository. There is a package that has the same
version in 2 different repositories (precise-updates and precise-
security). Even though I have the Apt Pinning/Preferences configured
properly and apt-cache policy reporting the correct information, apt-get
dist-upgrade -s is not reporting the correct repository. This becomes an
issue when trying to determine if a package/version is a security update
or not.
Code:
root@server:~# cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/pin-precise-updates-release
Package: *
Pin: release a=precise-updates
Pin-Priority: 600
Package: *
Pin: release a=precise
Pin-Priority: 300
root@server:~# cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/pin-precise-security-release
Package: *
Pin: release a=precise-security
Pin-Priority: 900
root@server:~# sudo apt-get update
(output clipped)
root@server:~# sudo apt-cache policy linux-libc-dev
linux-libc-dev:
Installed: 3.2.0-53.81
Candidate: 3.2.0-58.88
Version table:
3.2.0-58.88 0
600 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64
Packages
900 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/main amd64
Packages
*** 3.2.0-53.81 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3.2.0-23.36 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
root@server:~# sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -s
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
linux-libc-dev
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Inst linux-libc-dev [3.2.0-53.81] (3.2.0-58.88 Ubuntu:12.04/precise-updates
[amd64])
Conf linux-libc-dev (3.2.0-58.88 Ubuntu:12.04/precise-updates [amd64])
1) Release -
# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS
Release: 12.04
2) Package Version -
# apt-cache policy apt
apt:
Installed: 0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.16
3) What I expect to happen -
I would expect "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -s" to show
Ubuntu:12.04/precise-security and not Ubuntu:12.04/precise-updates because of
the higher repository priority.
4) What happened instead -
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -s is showing the correct package version, but the
repository being shown is one of a smaller pin value.
I have found that if I put the precise-security source before precise-updates
in /etc/apt/sources.list, apt-get dist-upgrade -s shows the precise-security
repository.
** Affects: apt (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apt apt-cache
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Pinning repositories not being used properly in apt-get dist-upgrade
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