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Re: dist-upgrade wants to remove packages and do nothing else



On Fri, 24 May 2013, David Kalnischkies wrote:

> If you look at the part of the output I quoted, you should see whats wrong:

Yeah, I didn’t see the forest in the face of all the trees.
The output can be overwhelming.

> They depend on each other and the problems cause is indeed file-rc, as it
> prevents the installation of sysv-rc, which is a dependency of openssh-server
> which in turn is a dependency of freenx-server on which all your clients depend.

Ah, okay. I put openssh-server on hold for now, which helped.

> Of course, the solution proposed is complete bogus, there is no need to remove
> anything if I am not going to install anything in the end (provided that the
> system was in a consistent state before of course), but thats usually harder to
> fix than it sounds and we thankfully have a user in front of the monitor who can
> say "no" to this solution

Okay.

> (don't get me wrong, I would love to get that fixed,
>  but there is only soo much you can do in your life …).

Yeah ;-) Same here.

Thanks,
//mirabilos
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