On Feb 14, 2007, at 8:00 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 15 February 2007 01:10, Joey Hess wrote:Rick Thomas wrote:After installation on a powerpc system (PowerMac Blue&White G3) when aptitude is run in interactive (curses) mode, told to do update and finish any pending operations ("g") command, it turns out that the "hfsutils" and "sudo" packages are marked for deletion. If aptitudeis told to go ahead (a second "g" command) it will delete them. Thishas bad effects on the health of the system.I have seen this occasionally in the past, especially when I used 'apt-getbuilddeps' or some such on an installed system. However, I have never seen this after installs.I also cannot reproduce it if I install d-i with sudo option. If I login afterwards and do 'sudo aptitude' followed by 'u' and 'g', I just get "Nopackages are scheduled to be installed, removed or upgraded.
OK, here's the exact sequence of events as near as I can remember -- I didn't write it down. If it's critical, I can re-do the install and write *everything* down. Also, if it would be helpful, I can supply log files.
Start with a bog-standard Blue&White PowerMac G3 (but I've seen this on other PowerMac machines, so the exact hardware may not be important.)
Installed from the Netinst CD (I've seen it with Businesscard CDs too) at the boot prompt chose the default type of install (Non- expert. Though I've seen it with an "expert" install too.) Accepted all the defaults to all the questions except...
When it asked for a root password, I hit "go back" and told it I didn't want to allow root logins. Then I proceeded with default answers from then on. I installed a standard system at tasksel time. (un-checked "Desktop Environment", checked "Standard System", and left unchecked everything else. But I've seen this with "Desktop Environment" checked as well.)
After the reboot, I logged in as normal user, did "sudo su -" to get to root. I edited the sources.list file to get rid of the line that calls for the netinst CD. I then did "aptitude install rsnapshot enscript ntp lynx-cur openssh-server lpr gpm bzip2 fbset mouseemu" and let it run it's course.
Then I did a bare "aptitude" and in the aptitude interactive mode I hit "u" and "g". It told me it wanted to delete sudo and hfsutils. I told it to "install" those two instead (hit "+" for each of them) and gave it a "g" which installed nothing and removed nothing.
Would log files help? Rick