PPA's always wanting to upgrade

[Mackenzie Morgan]

What if you do a "sudo apt-get update"?

On Dec 1, 2007 2:13 PM, Mario Limonciello <superm1 at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've had a few users of my PPA's (mythbuntu,mythbuntu-trunk,ipod-touch)
> complaining about stuff like this happening:
>
> zorael at azrael:~$ sudo aptitude full-upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initialising package states... Done
> Building tag database... Done
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>  ipod-convenience
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/9206B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y
> WARNING: untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed!
>
> Untrusted packages could compromise your system's security.
> You should only proceed with the installation if you are certain that
> this is what you want to do.
>
>  ipod-convenience
>
> Do you want to ignore this warning and proceed anyway?
> To continue, enter "Yes"; to abort, enter "No": Yes
> Writing extended state information... Done
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> (Reading database ... 153696 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace ipod-convenience 0.3-0ubuntu1~ppa1 (using
> .../ipod-convenience_0.3-0ubuntu1~ppa1_all.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement ipod-convenience ...
> Setting up ipod-convenience (0.3-0ubuntu1~ppa1) ...
>
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initialising package states... Done
> Building tag database... Done
> zorael at azrael:~$ sudo aptitude full-upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initialising package states... Done
> Building tag database... Done
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>  ipod-convenience
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/9206B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y
> WARNING: untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed!
>
> Untrusted packages could compromise your system's security.
> You should only proceed with the installation if you are certain that
> this is what you want to do.
>
>  ipod-convenience
>
> Do you want to ignore this warning and proceed anyway?
> To continue, enter "Yes"; to abort, enter "No": Yes
> Writing extended state information... Done
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> (Reading database ... 153696 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace ipod-convenience 0.3-0ubuntu1~ppa1 (using
> .../ipod-convenience_0.3-0ubuntu1~ppa1_all.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement ipod-convenience ...
> Setting up ipod-convenience (0.3-0ubuntu1~ppa1) ...
>
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initialising package states... Done
> Building tag database... Done
>
>
> So basically the PPA thinks that it always wants to upgrade the
> package.  Can anyone think of why it would be doing this?
>
> --
> Mario Limonciello
> superm1 at ubuntu.com
>
>
>
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