Re: Re: Re: apt pinning question

I wonder if it'll behave any differently if you use aptitude instead of apt-get.

I've never used aptitude before, so after your suggestion I gave it a
try and aptitude does behave differently.
What it does is it complains of the same problem as apt, then it
offers to fix it and in every example I've tried so far its fix is
exactly what I want.
I'm an instant fan.


Hugin on my current system makes a good example.

"apt-get install hugin -t lucid" wants to install 27 packages, all
from Lucid(testing), most of them libraries.

"apt-get install hugin/lucid" complains that hugin has unmet dependencies

"aptitude install hugin/lucid" does this:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
hugin
The following NEW packages will be installed:
autopano-sift{a} binfmt-support{a} cli-common{a} enblend{a}
enfuse{a} freeglut3{a} libboost-thread1.38.0{a} libgdiplus{a}
libglade2.0-cil{a}
libglib2.0-cil{a} libgtk2.0-cil{a} libimage-exiftool-perl{a}
libmono-cairo2.0-cil{a} libmono-corlib2.0-cil{a}
libmono-i18n-west2.0-cil{a}
libmono-security2.0-cil{a} libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil{a}
libmono-system2.0-cil{a} libpano13-1{a} libplot2c2{a} mono-2.0-gac{a}
mono-gac{a}
mono-runtime{a}
0 packages upgraded, 24 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 11.6MB of archives. After unpacking 37.1MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
hugin: Depends: hugin-tools (= 2009.2.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1) but it is not
installable
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Install the following packages:
hugin-data [2009.2.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1 (lucid)]
hugin-tools [2009.2.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1 (lucid)]
libpano13-bin [2.9.14-2 (karmic, lucid)]

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