Subject: reprepro: Please allow to apply overrides on already installed packages
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 11:16:59 +0200
Package: reprepro
Version: 4.17.0-1
Severity: wishlist
User: [email protected]
Usertags: origin-kali
For some reasons it seems that "update" + "pull" rules do not properly
transfer the priority... for instance I have the emdebian-archive-keyring
which is priority extra in Debian's Packages files but priority important
in the .deb itself. And it ended up as priority important in the Kali
archive...
Now I want to fix this priority so I added the "DebOverride" directive
to conf/distributions but the next "export" does not apply this updated
priority. Instead I have to remove the package and add it back to get
it applied.
It would be nice if the overrides could either be automatically applied
or at least have a command to apply them without requiring such trickery.
Cheers,
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages reprepro depends on:
ii libarchive13 3.1.2-11+b1
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-8
ii libc6 2.22-6
ii libdb5.3 5.3.28-11
ii libgpg-error0 1.21-2
ii libgpgme11 1.6.0-1
ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1
ii pinentry-curses 0.9.7-5
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
Versions of packages reprepro recommends:
ii apt 1.2.10
Versions of packages reprepro suggests:
ii gnupg-agent 2.1.11-6
pn inoticoming <none>
pn lzip <none>
-- no debconf information
Subject: Re: Bug#820867: reprepro: Please allow to apply overrides on already
installed packages
Date: Sun, 8 May 2016 15:17:01 +0200
* Raphaël Hertzog <[email protected]> [160413 11:21]:
> For some reasons it seems that "update" + "pull" rules do not properly
> transfer the priority... for instance I have the emdebian-archive-keyring
> which is priority extra in Debian's Packages files but priority important
> in the .deb itself. And it ended up as priority important in the Kali
> archive...
I didn't yet have the time to try to reproduce this part. (Current
behaviour should be that reprepro get the priority the time the specific
version of a package was added to a specific distribution. If that
happend due to "update" or "pull" it should get the Priority of the
source distribution (and only the one from the file if the file is
added locally via include*/processincoming). Though if the Priority
changed in the source distribution, reprepro will currently not update
to local one (unless there is a new version of the package)).
> Now I want to fix this priority so I added the "DebOverride" directive
> to conf/distributions but the next "export" does not apply this updated
> priority. Instead I have to remove the package and add it back to get
> it applied.
>
> It would be nice if the overrides could either be automatically applied
> or at least have a command to apply them without requiring such trickery.
There is "reprepro reoverride" for this part.
Bernhard R. Link
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