Re: Strange behaviour during install
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes ("Strange behaviour during install"):
> I installed a debian-1.1 system today by first installing the
> 0.96R6 base system, then dpkg-1.1.3, ld.so and libc5, then running
> dselect on unstable/binary-i386.
>
> Because I have turned off do_deletes in my mirror run, some packages
> also have the old version lying around on disk. Dpkg or dselect shouldn't
> see these during an install, right? Because they use the Packages file.
No, not necessarily, depending on what you did.
> Some way or the other, the old versions got installed first. This way
> I ended up with libc5-2.18-2.deb installed and then installing
> libc5-dev-2.18-1.deb fails (even though -2 is present and -1 isn't even
> listed in my Packages file).
This shouldn't be a problem unless there are packages which really do
depend on the later versions.
> This breaks lots of stuff during install.
>
> Now ofcourse I might have been something something completely wrong, or
> there might be a good reason for it. Anyway I think it is interesting.
I'd recommend turning deletes on in your mirror config.
Ian.
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