synaptic pinning/locking does not work
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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synaptic (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Michael Vogt |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: synaptic
Distro: Edgy 6.10 (frozen beta)
Synaptic package: 0.57.11ubuntu12
Problem:
Highlighting an installed package and going to Package -> Lock Version refreshes the package view, but the package is NOT locked.
After an attempt to pin/lock a package, going back to the package shows that nothing has changed. Icon is the same and the "Lock package" selection is also the same (no check mark). Looking into /var/lib/
Permissions on the preferences file seem correct:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2006-08-13 08:58 preferences
Tested locking/pinning with these packages:
metacity
some gstreamer0.10 plugin
openoffice.org
adduser
bluefish
sudo dpkg --get-selections | grep hold shows nothing (empty).
/etc/apt/
Thanks for your bugreport.
Locking is currently broken in synaptic. It will be fixed very soon after the release but currently the archive is frozen so I can't upload the fix.
Cheeers,
Michael