Debian APT / Backports / Pinning

Submitted by supergames on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 10:31

Hi there,

I have a problem with debian and apt pinning.

Problem description:

In my sources.list a have a reference to debian backport. When i check for packages available for update, all debian backport packages get listed.

any ideas?

I know that this issue has been discussed before, but I didn't find a solution for my problem in those postings.

http://www.virtualmin.com/node/12048 http://www.virtualmin.com/node/6688

thank you and best regards

Nicolas

listings:

sources.list
--------------------------------
# Debian packages for lenny
deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

# Security updates for stable
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib

# Backports
deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free

# Dotdeb
deb http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all

deb http://AAA:BBB@cloudmin.virtualmin.com/debian binary/

preferences
---------------------------------
Package: *
Pin: origin packages.dotdeb.org
Pin-Priority: 1

Package: subversion
Pin: release a=lenny-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

Package: libsvn1
Pin: release a=lenny-backports
Pin-Priority: 999

apt-cache policy output:
----------------------------------
> apt-cache policy
Package files:
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     release a=now
500 http://cloudmin.virtualmin.com binary/ Packages
     release o=Virtualmin Inc,l=Cloudmin,c=non-free
     origin cloudmin.virtualmin.com
   1 http://packages.dotdeb.org stable/all Packages
     origin packages.dotdeb.org
   1 http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/non-free Packages
     release v=None,o=Backports.org archive,a=lenny-backports,l=Backports.org archive,c=non-free
     origin www.backports.org
   1 http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/contrib Packages
     release v=None,o=Backports.org archive,a=lenny-backports,l=Backports.org archive,c=contrib
     origin www.backports.org
   1 http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/main Packages
     release v=None,o=Backports.org archive,a=lenny-backports,l=Backports.org archive,c=main
     origin www.backports.org
500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Packages
     release v=5.0,o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian-Security,c=contrib
     origin security.debian.org
500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
     release v=5.0,o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian-Security,c=main
     origin security.debian.org
500 http://ftp.ch.debian.org lenny/non-free Packages
     release v=5.0.4,o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian,c=non-free
     origin ftp.ch.debian.org
500 http://ftp.ch.debian.org lenny/contrib Packages
     release v=5.0.4,o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian,c=contrib
     origin ftp.ch.debian.org
500 http://ftp.ch.debian.org lenny/main Packages
     release v=5.0.4,o=Debian,a=stable,l=Debian,c=main
     origin ftp.ch.debian.org
Pinned packages:
     subversion -> 1.6.4dfsg-1~bpo50+1
     libsvn1 -> 1.6.4dfsg-1~bpo50+1
Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by JamieCameron on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 15:51

This is a know issue with Webmin 1.500, as it attempts to do its own resolution of available package updates, and doesn't always take apt pinning into account.

The 1.510 release will fix it though.

Submitted by Issues on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 16:20

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.