Re: Xorg dist upgrade troubles
Hello,
2010/6/28 Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>:
> ever since etch or so, Xorg upgrades have been a bit of a pain as
> apt/aptitude decide to uninstall driver packages instead of upgrading
> them.
( If you want to be sure that aptitude is in the loop you want to write
to aptitude@packages.debian.org too, but we are talking here based
on the great upgrade test from Petter Reinholdtsen "just" about the
current behavior of APT, doesn't we? )
I haven't found the real cause for this problem, but for the time being
you can add to the xserver-xorg-video-all package the following line:
>>>>>
Breaks: xserver-xorg-video-cyrix, xserver-xorg-video-dummy,
xserver-xorg-video-glint, xserver-xorg-video-i810,
xserver-xorg-video-imstt, xserver-xorg-video-nsc,
xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd, xserver-xorg-video-tga,
xserver-xorg-video-v4l, xserver-xorg-video-vga, xserver-xorg-video-via
<<<<<
(a list of all packages xserver-xorg-video-all depended on in lenny but
no longer in squeeze). You might want to add versions to these breaks,
also a different package is maybe a better fit for this breaks line,
but at least in my test this caused the xorg upgrade problem to disappear.
> The current situation looks like this:
>
> Package: xserver-xorg
> Depends: xserver-xorg-core, xserver-xorg-video-all | xserver-xorg-video-${abi}
>
> Package: xserver-xorg-core
> Depends: xserver-xorg
> Conflicts: xserver-xorg-video-${oldabi}
>
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-foo
> Provides: xserver-xorg-video-${abi}
> Depends: xserver-xorg-core
The conflicts is a breaks in current unstable, isn't it?
Packages like x11-common seems to have a lot of conflicts.
Are all of them - not only in this specific package - really needed or
would be Breaks enough? (see also the fresh policy version 3.9.0)
Also, xserver-xorg and xserver-xorg-core forming a dependency loop
in your snippet.
> For squeeze I'm trying to get to something like this:
>
> Package: xserver-xorg
> Depends: xserver-xorg-core, xserver-xorg-video-all | xorg-driver-video
>
> Package: xserver-xorg-core
> Provides: xorg-video-abi-${abi}
>
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-foo
> Depends: xorg-video-abi-${abi}
> Provides: xorg-driver-video
Looks much better on first glance. :)
But why the Depends on xserver-xorg-video-all ?
I assume that all packages xserver-xorg-video-all depends on will
provide xorg-driver-video so you depend on (A & B & …) | (A | B | …).
While apt currently chooses always the first option at first if it needs
to install something it is not guaranteed that it will do this forever or
that any other $packagemanager will always choose the A & B & … path
Best regards,
David Kalnischkies
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