Re: GNOME 2.8 on ia64 completely hosed?
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 02:39:28AM +0100, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Al Stone:
>
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > gnome-applets: Depends: gnome-applets-data (= 2.8.1.1-3) but 2.8.1.1-4
> > is to be installed
> > gnome-applets-data: Depends: gnome-applets (= 2.8.1.1-4) but 2.8.1.1-3
> > is to be installed
>
> It looks like you're trying to install gnome-applets 2.8.1.1-3 and
> gnome-applets-data 2.8.1.1-4. As far as I understand, gnome-applets-data
> is common for all architectures, so -4 got build when the i386 version
> got built, but the -4 version of gnome-applets for ia64 wsn't built at
> that time and when you tried to upgrade only -3 was available.
Indeed. I believe this is a bug in the debian archive, which should not drop
the -3 common version until all arches are dropping it.
> Did you try going to http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/g/gnome-applets/
> and getting gnome-applets_2.8.1.1-4_ia64.deb from there? It also looks
> like it got to the pool today, so simply try updating and upgrading with
> today's data before trying the manual way.
Just get the source package and rebuild it, this is how i solved this problem
on powerpc, while the autobuilder where sort of behind it.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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