Bug#186281: marked as done (libc6 and libdb1-compat mutual dependency)
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From: Tom Peters <tom@tompth.xs4all.nl>
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Subject: libc6 and libdb1-compat mutual dependency
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Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.1-14
Severity: important
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux tompth.localdomain.fake 2.4.19 #1 Fri Aug 9 21:38:54 CEST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 The Berkeley database routines [gl
I came from libc-2.2.4 , and tried to install mysql. I first did an
apt-get upgrade of debian-testing. Dependencies required installation of
libdb1-compat, which happens to be version 2.1.3-7 in debian-testing as of
yesterday.
Although it is for compatibility with programs linked against glibc 2.0 or 2.1,
apparently it depends on a newer version of libc6 ...
So that one got partially installed, but could not be configured because
itself depends on libdb1-compat . So deadlock, and nothing worked
anymore...
After using a rescue disk and some manual copying and symlinking for
the newer libc6, configuration was still impossible because of a
dependency conflict:
# dpkg --configure libc6
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libc6:
libc6 depends on libdb1-compat; however:
Package libdb1-compat is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
libc6
# dpkg --configure libdb1-compat
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libdb1-compat:
libdb1-compat depends on libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13); however:
Package libc6 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libdb1-compat (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
libdb1-compat
Solution: --force-depends for libc6
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From: GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>
To: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>, 186281-done@bugs.debian.org
Cc: GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>,
Tom Peters <tom@tompth.xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Bug#186281: libc6 and libdb1-compat mutual dependency
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At Wed, 26 Mar 2003 09:39:18 +0000,
Colin Watson wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 02:37:03PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> > At Tue, 25 Mar 2003 22:06:28 +0100,
> > Tom Peters wrote:
> > > After using a rescue disk and some manual copying and symlinking for
> > > the newer libc6, configuration was still impossible because of a
> > > dependency conflict:
> > >
> > > # dpkg --configure libc6
> [...]
> > > # dpkg --configure libdb1-compat
> [...]
> >
> > Hmm, it's bad. Circular dependency is happened here.
>
> Why is this a problem? Tom, you should use 'dpkg --configure libc6
> libdb1-compat'. I don't think there's a bug here.
>
> > Colin, should we remove "depends: libc6" from libdb1-compat?
>
> I don't think that would be correct. Depends: loops are supported, and
> legitimate in this case: it is really true that neither libc6 nor
> libdb1-compat will be configured correctly until both are configured
> correctly, but dpkg knows how to break this loop as long as you give it
> enough information, and apt has no problem with it.
Well, apt handles them correctly. I'm not aware of Depends: loop
support in dpkg, but from thinking about apt, it should be worked to
designate two package for dpkg --configure at the same time. Colin,
thanks for your explanation.
It's not bug, I close this report.
Regards,
-- gotom
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