PPA's always wanting to upgrade

[Mario Limonciello]

Celso,

Thanks for the heads up on this.

I'll subscribe and let my users know about the issue.

Regards,

On Dec 1, 2007 2:49 PM, Celso Providelo <celso.providelo at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Dec 1, 2007 5:13 PM, Mario Limonciello <superm1 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >   ipod-convenience
>
> [snip]
>
> > So basically the PPA thinks that it always wants to upgrade the
> > package.  Can anyone think of why it would be doing this?
>
> Hi Mario,
>
> This issue is a known bug in the PPA code that generates archive
> indexes, see https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/soyuz/+bug/165230.
>
> As the schooltool's zope3 package, you use 'Pre-depends' in your
> package and LP doesn't include it in the indexes, once it's installed
> apt gets confused by this difference (local metadata and ppa-index
> metadata), assumes the package has changed and tries to install it
> again.
>
> BTW, isn't 'Pre-Depends: debconf' unnecessary ?
>
> Anyway, If you can safely avoid the use of the following
> control-fields in your packages until we get our code fixed,
> installations from your PPA will be fine
>
>  * Source::Build-Conflicts
>  * Source::Build-Conflicts-Indep
>  * Binary::Pre-depends
>  * Binary::Recommends
>  * Binary::Enhances
>  * Binary::Breaks
>  * Binary::Essential
>
> See https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/soyuz/+bug/172308 for more
> information on this task.
>
> Sorry for this inconvenience, we will be working to get it fixed ASAP.
>
> []
> --
> Celso Providelo <celso.providelo at gmail.com>
>



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Mario Limonciello
superm1 at gmail.com
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