PPA's always wanting to upgrade

[Mario Limonciello]

Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> What if you do a "sudo apt-get update"?
> 
> On Dec 1, 2007 2:13 PM, Mario Limonciello <superm1 at ubuntu.com
> <mailto: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 <mailto:superm1 at ubuntu.com>
> 
> 
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> Mackenzie Morgan
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> apt-get moo

Yeah updating the apt package lists doesn't change anything for the affected folks.

-- 
Mario Limonciello
superm1 at ubuntu.com

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