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[ubuntu lucid] apt-get does not recognize version locking done in synaptic

Bug #533890 reported by ullix on 2010-03-07

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #42178: synaptic: ‘Lock Version’ is broken; use dpkg hold. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	apt (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: apt

Using Synaptic I downgraded mythtv-frontend and mythtv-common from Lucid's version 0.23 to 0.22 (for compatibility with an older backend server). Then I locked the 0.22 versions in Synaptic. As expeceted. neither Synapitc nor the update-manager then offer these versions for upgrade. Synaptic shows the two packages as pinned; update-manager does not show them at all.

However, apt-get from the command line does not recognize the locking status and always does an upgrade when called as apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade.

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Torsten Spindler (tspindler) wrote on 2010-03-09:

Synaptic and apt-get do not share the same settings, hence the pinning/locking in synaptic is not known by apt-get.

Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid

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ullix (ullix) wrote on 2010-03-09:

Well, doesn't this look like an obvious shortcoming, which needs to be addressed?

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Torsten Spindler (tspindler) wrote on 2010-03-12:

The developer told me that in the past synaptic did share the same locking as apt, and it confused more people. So I would not count on this changing again.