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List:       debian-user
Subject:    Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken
From:       "Carl D. Blake" <carl () boeckeler ! com>
Date:       2006-05-10 16:05:07
Message-ID: 1147277106.6197.38.camel () vulcan
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On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 02:42, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 17:49:57 -0700, kruton wrote:
> > > OK, I'll ask a stupid question.  How do you setup
> > > the sources.list file
> > > so you can use unstable, but install emacs from
> > > testing at the same
> > > time?
> > 
> > i don't think even testing is working... both testing
> > and unstable have the same version number.. so wait
> > till the bug is fixed. (or use xemacs as suggested)
> 
> The problem is not the emacs21 package but rather its dependency, the
> emacs21-common package:
> 
> $ apt-cache policy emacs21-common
> emacs21-common:
>   Installed: 21.4a-3
>   Candidate: 21.4a-3.1
>   Version table:
>      21.4a-3.1 0
>         500 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main Packages
>  *** 21.4a-3 0
>         500 http://ftp.nl.debian.org testing/main Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      21.4a-1 0
>         500 http://ftp.nl.debian.org stable/main Packages
> 
> To answer the question of the parent: You can just add two lines for
> testing to your /etc/apt/sources.list, for example
> 
> deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
> 
> (You don't have to use the Dutch mirror, of course.)
> 
> Apt(itude) will still install the unstable packages by default, because
> the newer versions of a package always get a higher priority, unless you
> specify otherwise in /etc/apt/preferences. ("man apt_preferences")
> 
> Then you can tell apt that you want the testing version of emcas21:
> 
> apt-get install emacs21=21.4a-3 emacs21-common=21.4a-3 emacs21-bin-common=21.4a-3
> 
> After that you just have to avoid attempts to upgrade emacs21-common
> until the problem is fixed. (Aptitude seems to be smart enough to notice
> the problem and keep the package at the testing version.)
> 
Well, that was easier than I expected.  I added the testing lines to my
sources.list file as you suggested and then ran
	aptitude update
and then
	aptitude install emacs21
without specifying anything about testing versions.  aptitude figured
out that the unstable package was broken and asked me if it was OK to
install the testing version of emacs21-common instead.  I said yes and
everything installed successfully.  It seems to work just fine. 
aptitude seems much smarter about handling broken packages than apt-get
or dselect are.  Thank you for your help.
> -- 
> Regards,
>           Florian
> 


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