cifs-utils 2:5.5-1 is available in both the wheezy and sid repos. Squeeze is still at cifs-utils 2:4.5-2+squeeze1 (I think you pointed this out in your original post - I'm going by emails generated by the listserve so sorry for not cross-checking). Paul Seelig has all three repos (squeeze, wheezy and sid) available for Window Maker Live, but he has different "pin priorities" set with wheezy at the highest priority and squeeze at the lowest. If you removed the "main" repo from the sources.list (either directly or via synaptic) for the wheezy and sid repos, my guess is that you've pulled in the squeeze versions of smbfs and cifs-utils, since apt would no longer be using the main repo for either one - only the main squeeze repo would then be available.
"apt pinning" is kind of an art, and Paul seems to be good at it (I've been running WMLive since the first Debian version about a year ago and it always updates without problems). There is a great discussion of apt pinning on the Crunchbang Linux forums here: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/12081/apt-pinning-and-you-living-on-the-edge-with/ Anyway, it looks to me as though you have solved your issue by pulling in an older version of smbfs and cifs-utils from the squeeze repos - if I understand your last couple of emails correctly. You can "pin" these at the versions you have installed (see the Crunchbang discussion, for example) but since Debian has moved smbfs into a virtual package, it may not matter. Glad you got this worked out. -Bill -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
