[Bug 988772] Re: apt-get --only-upgrade install $PKG installs new packages

[Florian Ermisch]

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Title:
  apt-get --only-upgrade install $PKG installs new packages

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  (I guess this bug should be handled by Debian but I have no Debian box
  at hand to test it)

  From apt-get(8):
         --only-upgrade
             Do not install new packages; When used in conjunction
             with install, only-upgrade will prevent packages on the
             command line from being upgraded if they are not already
             installed. Configuration Item: APT::Get::Only-Upgrade.

  (If you get confused by the descriptions of --no-upgrade and --only-
  upgrade (like I did) take a look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
  bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=669409)

  What happens on Ubuntu 11.04:

  (SSH into Ubuntu-box, "apt-get --only-upgrade install" a pkg reported as hold back)
  -bash-4.2$ ssh host
  Welcome to Ubuntu 11.04 (GNU/Linux 2.6.38-14-generic-pae i686)

   * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/

  Last login: Thu Apr 26 11:12:47 2012 from 192.168.0.128
  user at host:~$ env LC_ALL=C sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install nautilus-dropbox
  [sudo] password for user: 
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  The following extra packages will be installed:
    dropbox
  Suggested packages:
    python-gpgme
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    dropbox
  The following packages will be upgraded:
    nautilus-dropbox
  1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 95.5 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 45.1 kB of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
  Abort.
  floh at ebkaffee:~$ export LC_ALL=C
  floh at ebkaffee:~$ apt-cache policy apt
  apt:
    Installed: 0.8.13.2ubuntu4.4
    Candidate: 0.8.13.2ubuntu4.4
    Version table:
   *** 0.8.13.2ubuntu4.4 0
          500 ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/linux/ubuntu/ natty-updates/main i386 Packages
          500 ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/linux/ubuntu/ natty-security/main i386 Packages
          500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-security/main i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       0.8.13.2ubuntu2 0
          500 ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/linux/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
  floh at ebkaffee:~$ lsb_release -rd
  Description:    Ubuntu 11.04
  Release:        11.04

  
  I guess "apt-get --only-upgrade install" should fail on packages with dependancies added in the new version.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: apt 0.8.13.2ubuntu4.4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-14.58-generic-pae 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-14-generic-pae i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: openafs
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Apr 26 11:13:28 2012
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-07-23 (277 days ago)

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