[Bug 672513] Re: aptitude package pinning not working

[Marcus Bointon]

Yup, it's a bug. It was fixed in Debian last October and only made it
into aptitude 0.6.3-3.2 in Natty, so both Lucid and Maverick suffer from
this problem:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557580

I filed a backport request: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lucid-
backports/+bug/795602

But it would be nice if it could be fixed here.

The workaround is to stop using aptitude and use (ick) apt-get instead.

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #557580
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557580

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Title:
  aptitude package pinning not working

Status in “aptitude” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: aptitude

  Version: 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu10

  I just upgraded a server from 9.10 to 10.04, but then needed to roll
  back PHP to 5.2 to support some code which used functions deprecated
  in PHP 5.3.  So after manually downgrading to the "karmic" versions of
  the php5 packages on the system I put the following in
  /etc/apt/preferences to prevent them getting upgraded again:

  Package: *php5*
  Pin: version 5.2*
  Pin-Priority: 1001

  However that doesn't work - running "aptitude -syv full-upgrade" shows
  that it would try to upgrade those packages to the "lucid" versions.
  I've also tried using "Pin: release a=karmic", but that doesn't work
  either.

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