Installed snapshot, disabled Stable repo, but Stable still wants to update
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Due to major problems with 1.14 Stable, I reverted back to 1.13 and disabled the Stable repository. Then I installed 1.15 snapshot, which has solved all the previous problems.
But now, even though the Stable repo is still disabled, Stable wants to auto-update. I don't want 1.14 on this system. I would like 1.13 to be here in case I need it, but if removing it would stop this update I would do so.
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I went ahead and uninstalled Stable, and the update went away. I'm sorry the update appeared in the first place, though. My disabling its repo should have been the final word (Vivaldi is not in the standard MX repo). The SnapShot repo is evidently causing the Stable repo to be polled. I'm sure that's intended as a convenience, but when one wants to freeze the Stable version, a conflict arises.
I'm now flying solely on the Snapshot.
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@paul1149 said in Installed snapshot, disabled Stable repo, but Stable still wants to update:
My disabling its repo should have been the final word (Vivaldi is not in the standard MX repo).
Did you by any chance edit the sources.list?
Vivaldi adds the repro during the instalation at
etc/apt/sources.list.d/
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Man & Apropos are our best friends.
@gwen-dragon said in Installed snapshot, disabled Stable repo, but Stable still wants to update:
You have to mark apackage which you do not want to update.
Even if I comment out the file vivaldi.list is not enough?
The last Snapshot was installed as a single user, apt-get update offers me to install. Let me comment out the repo and run it again -
@gwen-dragon Back. Never used Gimp so often lately. Here is the token :p
The way i see, adding a single char # is easier.
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@gwen-dragon Did you check the sources.list, just in case?
apt-mark is a handy command line. -
@Gwen-Dragon Indeed. Vivaldi repro does not add entry to sources.list
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@gwen-dragon said in Installed snapshot, disabled Stable repo, but Stable still wants to update:
You have to mark apackage which you do not want to update.
man apt-mark
is your friend to be informed!Your wish for stopping stable update is:
sudo apt-mark hold vivaldi-stable
Now a apt update shows as upgradable but is not upgrade after apt upgrade.
Ah, I knew that, but it totally slipped my mind! No problem, I can reinstall when I'm ready. But I still don't think snapshots should invoke the stable branch.
Edit: But really, what does it matter? If I disable the stable repo, why would apt be looking for updates there, unless the snapshot were telling it to? Why would a "hold" be necessary? Doesn't make sense to me.
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@gwen-dragon said in Installed snapshot, disabled Stable repo, but Stable still wants to update:
I will check internally.
Good. Thanks.
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@gwen-dragon said in Installed snapshot, disabled Stable repo, but Stable still wants to update:
@paul1149 Wait until Monday, our Linux dev is out of office.
k.
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@gwen-dragon said in Installed snapshot, disabled Stable repo, but Stable still wants to update:
If you do not want a update of a package you have to apt-mark hold – exlcuding with a hold is a usual practice.
Ok. Thanks for checking.
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@gwen-dragon said in Installed snapshot, disabled Stable repo, but Stable still wants to update:
Now information from backstage. The repo is well structured and ok, some entries in repo are symlinks to archive dir, thats why all repo folders contain Snapshots and Stables.
If you do not want a update of a package you have to
apt-mark hold
– exlcuding with a hold is a usual practice.Strange that both repos contain the stable and snapshot packages but I suppose there is some logical reason.
http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/pool/main
http://repo.vivaldi.com/snapshot/deb/pool/main/ -
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