problem with apt and sid repo and preferences
Posted: 2021-11-07 06:05
Hi
I have a little problem with apt in my debian testing installed on my laptop,
I config one preference and use it until now with this goal that testing is my base distribution and sid is when i want package that does not exist in testing repo like now :
thanks.
I have a little problem with apt in my debian testing installed on my laptop,
I config one preference and use it until now with this goal that testing is my base distribution and sid is when i want package that does not exist in testing repo like now :
when i run dist-upgrade, firefox that exist in sid must be delete !# cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/imipreg
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 1100
Package: *
Pin: release a=sid
Pin-Priority: 100
And this is firefox and one library that i installed it from sid:# apt dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
firefox
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
libnss3
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 downgraded, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,319 kB of archives.
After this operation, 215 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Normal apt install for firefox :# apt-cache policy firefox libnss3
firefox:
Installed: 94.0-1
Candidate: 94.0-1
Version table:
*** 94.0-1 500
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libnss3:
Installed: 2:3.72-1
Candidate: 2:3.70-1
Version table:
*** 2:3.72-1 500
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2:3.70-1 1100
1100 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
And another way to do it :# apt install firefox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
firefox : Depends: libnss3 (>= 2:3.71~) but 2:3.70-1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
What is wrong with apt and my configurations ?# apt install firefox libnss3=2:3.72-1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
fonts-stix | otf-stix fonts-lmodern
The following NEW packages will be installed:
firefox
The following packages will be upgraded:
libnss3
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 56.2 MB/57.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 215 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 firefox amd64 94.0-1 [56.2 MB]
Fetched 47.5 MB in 1min 2s (762 kB/s)
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 279144 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libnss3_2%3a3.72-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libnss3:amd64 (2:3.72-1) over (2:3.70-1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package firefox.
Preparing to unpack .../firefox_94.0-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking firefox (94.0-1) ...
Setting up libnss3:amd64 (2:3.72-1) ...
Setting up firefox (94.0-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.32-4) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.70) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.4-2+b1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26-1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1) ...
thanks.
