Trying to update Raspbian holding some packages?

[Cubytus]

Hello community,

I am currently attempting to update the Rasbpbian that's running my Pi, holding packages cryptsetup and initramfs-tools. So I held them with the command

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sudo apt-mark hold cryptsetup && sudo apt-mark initramfs-tools

They need to stay untouched because I haven't finished the compilation tests with more recent of these versions that are not available in the repositories.

But it seems that apt-get still can't update the other ones. Besides, the error message is just the same without the "hold".

Any idea where to start solving that, or at least an insight?

[DirkS]

What error messages?

[Cubytus]

This one:

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sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 cryptsetup-bin : Breaks: cryptsetup (< 2:1.4.3-1~) but 1.6.6-1 is installed
 initramfs-tools : Breaks: cryptsetup (< 2:1.1.0-2.1) but 1.6.6-1 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

[rpdom]

Did you do an apt-get update before trying the upgrade?

Please list the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list and all files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d
These command will do that for you

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cd /etc/apt;for i in sources.list sources.list.d/*;do echo;echo $i;echo ===;cat $i;done

[Cubytus]

Here you are:

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deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib non-free rpi
deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports main

And

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$ cd /etc/apt;for i in sources.list sources.list.d/*;do echo;echo $i;echo ===;cat $i;done

sources.list
===
deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib non-free rpi
deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports main

sources.list.d/collabora.list
===
deb http://raspberrypi.collabora.com wheezy rpi

sources.list.d/raspi.list
===
deb http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/ wheezy main

Of course I did update before attempting the upgrade.

[DirkS]

You can't use the debian repo for compiled packages, they're not Pi compatible.
remove the line from sources.list, run 'sudo apt-get update' and hope for the best.

Gr.
Dirk.

[DougieLawson]

Here you are:

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deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib non-free rpi
deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports main

Get rid of that debian.net line before you update your system and destroy it. The debian ARM code is for an ARMv7 (or later) processor it will NOT run on the Raspberry Pi's ARMv6 processsor and installing it can leave your system in a completely unusable state.

[Cubytus]

Thanks for the advice, but the error hasn't changed:

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 sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 cryptsetup-bin : Breaks: cryptsetup (< 2:1.4.3-1~) but 1.6.6-1 is installed
 initramfs-tools : Breaks: cryptsetup (< 2:1.1.0-2.1) but 1.6.6-1 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

Even though a hold has been put on these specific packages, it seems it always attempts to update them.

[DougieLawson]

sudo apt-get install aptitude
It has really good support for holding packages and resolving dependencies.

[Cubytus]

Not sure I get what's going on in Aptitude:
I tries to look for the incriminating packages, then re-add the "hold" on them with "=", but the "h" flag doesn't appear:

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i     i2c-tools                                                                                                    3.1.0-2        3.1.0-2
BB    initramfs-tools                                                                                              0.115~bpo70+1  0.115~bpo70+1 
i A   kbd                                                                                                          1.15.3-9       1.15.3-9

Besides, why would the "hold" not be effective from apt-get?