Re: Etch Upgrade Puzzle
On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 10:42:53AM -0400, Carl Brown wrote:
> I just switched my sources.list over to the new mirrors, using:
>
> deb ftp://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
> deb-src ftp://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
>
> apt-get upgrade says:
>
> 837 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 504 not upgraded.
>
> Among the packages held back are:
> x-window-system-core, kde*, and gnome*.
>
> So I think that it might be time for a dist-upgrade due to the excessive
> number of held back packages.
>
> But apt-get dist-upgrade says:
>
> 1136 upgraded, 111 newly installed, 157 to remove and 153 not upgraded.
>
> Among the packages to remove are:
> gnome-core kde-core kdebase x-window-system x-window-system-core
> xfree86-common xserver-common xserver-xfree86 xserver-xorg
>
> Obviously I don't want to do that!
> Any ideas about what could be causing this?
I don't think kde has made it into etch on amd64 yet. The x.org 7
transition took a while, and now other things are trickling in.
etch on amd64 is far from complete package wise, but it is slowly
getting better every day.
Len Sorensen
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