[64studio-devel] "Mark all upgrades" / dist-upgrade wants to remove and downgrade many packages

[Free Ekanayaka]

|--==> tim hall writes:

  th> Dennis Schulmeister wrote:
  >>Hello everybody,
  >>
  >>this is just a quick question on upgrading 64studio.
  >>
  >>I installed a fresh version 1.3.0 on my computer without any
  >>modifications to sources.list and the like. But when I want to upgrade
  >>("Mark All Upgrades" in Synaptic or "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade") apt
  >>wants to downgrade 531 packages and wants to remove 26 packages.
  >>
  >>Among those to be removed also are the 64Studio core packages.
  >>
  >>Do you know what's the reason for that.
  >>

  th> Yes.

  th> Your /etc/apt/sources.list got rewritten during the upgrade.
  th> Go to Settings -> Repositories
  th> uncheck the 64studio stable entry and check 64studio testing

  th> Overwriting existing config files without permission is considered a bug 
  th> under Debian rules: what is 64studio's position? I would certainly 
  th> prefer that it didn't do this. Would it be useful to open a ticket for 
  th> each instance of this minor but slightly annoying rule violation?

Yes of course, please free to open a ticket if you find out this kind
of problems.

However in this case the problem is another, in a fresh 1.3.0 install
the default APT sources point to the stable repo (1.0), so APT things
he has to downgrade. In general upgrading the 64studio-apt package
(which sports the default APT sources) should not override user
tweaks, dpkg should prompt in case of modifications. If this does not
happen please let know.

Ciao!

Free