Devuan bug report logs -
#623
chimaera-backports repo being used unprompted- missing pin priority
Reported by: juu <juu@protonmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 23:32:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Merged with 624
Found in version chimaera
Done: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
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On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 07:58:55AM +0100, Mark Hindley wrote:
> Thanks for reporting this. I have changed the configuration in DAK. It may take
> up to a day to be propagated. I will check again tomorrow before closing the bug
> as fixed.
The configuration change has propagated to the mirrors.
Closing.
Mark
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Package: chimaera-backports
Version: 4.0
I'm running Devuan Chimaera and recently discovered that packages were being upgraded from backports without me manually installing it from backports. I thought that these packages were just put into stable until realizing later that they were backported packages. As described here, a user on dev1galaxy forums realized that the Devuan release file does not put a pin priority of 100 on backports like it does in Debian.
The Debian bullseye-backports repository has a[Release file](http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye-backports/Release)that contains these lines:
NotAutomatic: yes
ButAutomaticUpgrades: yes
This confers a pin priority of 100 for all packages, which means they will not be installed unless explicitly targetted (either by version or with the--targetoption forapt) but any packages that are installed from backports will be kept updated from there.
But the Devuan chimaera-backports repository[Release file](http://deb.devuan.org/devuan/dists/chimaera-backports/Release)does not have those lines.
For background, here is the thread where this is being discussed, starting at post #15 in the thread.
[https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=4567](http://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=4567)
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On Saturday, October 23rd, 2021 at 6:01 PM, juu <juu@protonmail.com> wrote:
> I'm running Devuan Chimaera and recently discovered that packages were being upgraded from backports without me manually installing it from backports. I thought that these packages were just put into stable until realizing later that they were backported packages. As described here, a user on dev1galaxy forums realized that the Devuan release file does not put a pin priority of 100 on backports like it does in Debian.
>
> The Debian bullseye-backports repository has a[Release file](http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye-backports/Release)that contains these lines:
>
> NotAutomatic: yes
> ButAutomaticUpgrades: yes
>
> This confers a pin priority of 100 for all packages, which means they will not be installed unless explicitly targetted (either by version or with the--targetoption forapt) but any packages that are installed from backports will be kept updated from there.
>
> But the Devuan chimaera-backports repository[Release file](http://deb.devuan.org/devuan/dists/chimaera-backports/Release)does not have those lines.
>
> For background, here is the thread where this is being discussed, starting at post #15 in the thread.
> [https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=4567](http://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=4567)
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