Re: Updating Woody X To Backports 4.2.1-14 ?
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 12:49:20 -0900, Greg Madden wrote:
>On Friday 09 January 2004 09:00 pm, Nick Boyce wrote:
>> With this deb source line :
>> deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable xfree86
>> running "apt-get update; apt-get -s upgrade" gives me messages saying
>> a number of X packages will be kept back :
[...]
>> I'd be grateful for anyone's advice here, before I screw up my
>> system. Am I supposed to do a dist-upgrade to resolve this ?
>Apt-get will not install a package if it depends on a new package. I
>can't say if this will bonk your system but it is telling you
>additional packages are needed. Dselect does a more complete job of
>satisfying depends, or you could do 'apt-get -s intall' on the held
>back packages to see what is happenning there.
Thanks for that reminder - I should have thought of that. I've tried
it now, with intriguing results :
glimmer:/usr# apt-get -s install x-window-system-core
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
xlibmesa3-gl xlibmesa3-glu
The following packages will be REMOVED:
xlibmesa3
The following NEW packages will be installed:
xlibmesa3-gl xlibmesa3-glu
1 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 29 not
upgraded.
[...]
Well those replacement package names look like they may have OpenGL
incorporated, where the standard Woody ones don't ... except that I
thought Mesa *was* an OpenGL library .. ?!?
Same again here ... but puzzlingly a new version of debconf is also
required :
glimmer:/usr# apt-get -s install xbase-clients
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
debconf xfree86-common xlibmesa3-glu xlibs xlibs-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
xlibmesa3-glu
5 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 26 not
upgraded.
[...]
Inst debconf (1.2.35 www.backports.org)
[...]
It's pretty much the same with every kept-back package I try manually
installing. More curiously, the new xlibs appears to conflict with
Abiword (which I'd forgotten I'd ever installed, so that's fine with
me) _and_ Nethack ... weird ! :
glimmer:/usr# apt-get -s install xlibs
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
debconf xbase-clients xfree86-common xlibmesa3-glu xlibs-dev
The following packages will be REMOVED:
abiword abiword-common abiword-gtk abiword-plugins nethack
nethack-common nethack-x11
The following NEW packages will be installed:
xlibmesa3-glu
5 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 7 to remove and 26 not
upgraded.
[...]
and I get the same with xterm too.
>Be careful of mixing backports, that said, I did what you are attempting
>with Adrian Bunks backports with success.
That's encouraging - thanks.
I've taken a [gasp] backup of the system now, so I'm feeling brave :-)
I may just try the upgrade anyway ... after a bit more investigation
of these conflicts.
Cheers,
Nick Boyce
Bristol, UK
--
Steinbach's Guideline for Systems Programming:
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.
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