Package updates fail to exclude pinned =1

Submitted by sgrayban on Wed, 03/24/2010 - 03:11

Packages that are pinned to 1 by using NotAutomatic: yes in the Release files, just as in experimental should be excluded by the Virtualmin Package Updates.

VM sees these as upgradable packages but they aren't and should be done manually.

Example if you use

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

These packages are all pinned at 1 because they are backports and DO break things which is why they need to be ignored.

I use this deb repo to test bleeding edge releases on my test box so that when they are released in the standard repo I will know what is going to break. For instance the bleeding edge dovecot will break as the config file was completely revamp for SSL.

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by JamieCameron on Wed, 03/24/2010 - 12:35

This is a known issue with Virtualmin's version comparisons - however, once Webmin 1.510 and wbm-security-updates 4.1 are out, this will go away. You will need to have apt-show-versions installed though, which will be added as a dependency in future installs.

Unfortunately reliably comparing an installed and available version of a package while taking backports and pinned versions into account is really hard, so I've decided to switch to callingapt-show-versions instead.

Submitted by Issues on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 07:20

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