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Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d

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On Friday 13 January 2017 03:16:50 Matthias Bodenbinder wrote:

> Am 12.01.2017 um 19:43 schrieb Michael Lange:
> > Just a shot in the dark:
> > maybe the apt-get update at boot time is done before a network
> > connection has been established? I noticed that this can lead to the
> > exact behavior you describe when pinning is in use. Apparently a bug
> > in apt.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Michael
>
> Hello Michael,
>
> I gave it a try. I unplugged the network and did an apt-get update.
> This is throwing all the errors that the repos are not available. But
> in the end the next "apt-get dist-upgrade" indeed wants to update all
> packages to testing.
>
> So it seems that this is an issue with network not ready while apt-get
> update is being performed.
>
> How do I fix this? Where to look?
>
> And thank you for the hint, Michael.
> Matthias

An old geezers thoughts on this is that if I see any error fetching the 
lists when I do an apt update, or apt-get update, I consider the system 
frozen in place until such time as the update succeeds w/o any errors. 
And I'll for sure question this list if the errors persist to the next 
day.  Debian may have suffered a machine failure, and its replacement 
might take a day to configure, and possibly another day to get 
synchronized, and only then might I update my sources list. But in these 
times, there is a high likelyhood of a round-robin setup at the debian 
site, spreading the load to 2 or 3 more other machines. So quite often 
and update done immediately after a failed update, works fine.

We users appreciate that, very much.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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apt-get is not following preferences.d Matthias Bodenbinder <matthias@bodenbinder.de> - 2017-01-12 19:40 +0100
  Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2017-01-12 19:50 +0100
    Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d Matthias Bodenbinder <matthias@bodenbinder.de> - 2017-01-13 09:20 +0100
      Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-01-13 09:50 +0100
      Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2017-01-13 10:20 +0100
        Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2017-01-13 11:10 +0100
  Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-01-12 20:40 +0100
    Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d Matthias Bodenbinder <matthias@bodenbinder.de> - 2017-01-23 08:50 +0100
      Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2017-01-23 12:00 +0100
        Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d Matthias Bodenbinder <matthias@bodenbinder.de> - 2017-01-25 07:20 +0100
          Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2017-01-25 20:10 +0100
            Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d Matthias Bodenbinder <matthias@bodenbinder.de> - 2017-01-27 07:10 +0100
              Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2017-01-27 19:10 +0100
                Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d davidson@freevolt.org - 2017-01-27 19:50 +0100
              Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d davidson@freevolt.org - 2017-01-27 19:20 +0100

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