APT ordering of reposiitories

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 12:37:26PM +0100, Bill Purvis wrote:
> I'm trying to maintain two machines in parallel, but find that apt,
> despite having what appears to have the same list of repositories has
> installed different versions of some packages on the two machines.
> 
> For instance: iproute2. This is on one machine as:
> 4.18.0-1ubuntu2~ubuntu18
> while on the other, it is
> 4.15.0-2ubuntu1
> 
> Running 'apt upgrade iproute2' on each machine states that this it the
> latest current version.

In general, "apt-cache policy iproute2" is a good way to debug this sort
of thing, though you'll need to do some reading to interpret the
information.  Reading "man apt_preferences" may be helpful too.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]