synaptic pinning/locking does not work

Thanks for your bugreport.

Locking is currently broken in synaptic. It will be fixed very soon after the release but currently the archive is frozen so I can't upload the fix.

Cheeers,
 Michael

Thank you for the great work on this (and others, of course) bug.

Thank you for the debdiff.

Cheers!

how do i use the debdiff file?

I uploaded a fix for this to edgy-proposed. I would welcome testing :)

Michael Vogt: Are you sure that you uploaded this fix to edgy-proposed? I cannot find it. Is there another edgy-proposed besides the one on archive.ubuntu.com?

And what would I look for? What would be the new version # of synaptic?

This is the proposed repo used to check:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-proposed universe main multiverse restricted

Hi, the problem is still there.
Still cannot lock to unlock anything.

Hi, never saw anything from edgy proposed.
Will this be fixed soon, or was it already fixed, and I missed it? Thanks.

I am also still getting this problem. Whenever I lock a file it just reverts to a blank screen with no search history or anything, and then the package is not locked.

The package that fixes this bug is not yet in edgy-proposed.

rasz@capek:~$ wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/edgy-proposed/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
--15:24:12-- http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/edgy-proposed/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
           => `Packages.gz'
Resolving archive.ubuntu.com... 195.248.90.38, 195.248.90.35
Connecting to archive.ubuntu.com|195.248.90.38|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 28,192 (28K) [text/plain]

100%[====================================>] 28,192 42.66K/s

15:24:13 (42.59 KB/s) - `Packages.gz' saved [28192/28192]

rasz@capek:~$ gzip -d Packages.gz
rasz@capek:~$ grep < Packages syna
Depends: xserver-xorg-input-elographics, xserver-xorg-input-evdev, xserver-xorg-input-kbd, xserver-xorg-input-mouse, xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, xserver-xorg-input-wacom

not there :(
we really need this fix as there are MANY broken/bugged packages in edgy (like libsdl) that need locked local copies

I concur. This is VERY annoying for anyone who has to deal with custom packages.

I wouldn't mind hearing an explanation for why something so simple and essential that worked perfectly in all the previous versions is now broken.

Accepted into edgy-proposed. Please proceed with testing.

thank you, almost working
checking "lock version" works, packages get pinned, but after that synaptic window resets and chosen tab/search filter is gone

"sudo apt-get upgrade" doesnt respect the lock/pin

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 05:31 +0000, rasz wrote:
> "sudo apt-get upgrade" doesnt respect the lock/pin

That is Bug #42178.
--
Bruce Cowan <https://launchpad.net/people/bruce89>

I have been using the version from edgy-proposed for a while now. Locking works fine for me with this version. However, "Force Version ... " does not work.

I don't know if this is the same bug. "Force version ..." behaves in the same way that "Lock Version" used to behave. That is, after selecting "Force Version" from the menu and selecting the desired version in the dialog box, Synaptic churns away and refreshes its list, but in the end nothing is marked.

I have a similar problem. If a version shows as locked in Synaptic, if you try to remove the locked check mark, the screen refreshes, but the locked package remains locked. It's entry is not removed from /var/lib/synaptic/preferences

I've installed the version from edgy-proposed. Now locking works for me. A small issue: invoking Package/Lock from some search results it resets the search criteria (or the window), i'd restart the search with selecting [search] and [ok] again.
"Force Version" stil doesn't work. (prompts for version to force, and do nothin')

I installed the synaptic version from edgy-proposed and was able to lock and unlock packages successfully.

Copied to edgy-updates.

Huh. It's now 2009, and I have Jaunty, and... I'm not able to lock/pin a file that I don't want updated, as I applied a patch to it. I'm new to this, so HOW do I do it from the command line?

Pretty weird. I was able to lock a banshee package as soon as they published 1.0 version (June 2008?), but today (in Jaunty) I want to lock wpasupplicant and synaptic cannot do this.

@RandyNose: I found this link:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-pin
which appears to work. I think I successfully locked that package, as it isn't shown in update-manager, but synaptic doesn't mark it as locked. It just says that the newest version is currently installed (which is not true, of course). This is my /etc/apt/preferences file:

Package: wpasupplicant
Pin: version 0.6.4-2
Pin-Priority: 1001

I'm not sure if this is the same bug, but Pinning still appears broken in Jaunty Synaptic.

I downloaded the source for vpnc, recompiled and installed with dpkg. When reloading the package index vpnc then appears in the list of updateable packages. I then pinned the package in synaptic. It appears in the status listing as 'Pinned'. If I reload then it no longer appears in the upgradeable list. So far so good. But if I 'Mark all Upgrades' although the pinned package is not marked when I click on 'Apply' the pinned package is included in the list of packages to be upgraded. So it appears to be pinned and the /var/lib/synaptic/preferences file contains an entry, but nonetheless synaptic is still marking it for update.