Control: retitle -1 Dependencies in backport cause aptitude to favour dracut On Sat, 2014-11-29 at 19:20 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 23:45:34 +0100, lee wrote: > > > Package: src:linux > > Version: 3.16.5-1~bpo70+1 > > Severity: important > > > > + do an installation that has the root file system on an LVM volume > > > > + once finished, install the backports kernel > > this removes initramfs-tools because the backports kernel uses > > dracut > > > It shouldn't. You need to install initramfs-tools from backports > though. The wheezy-backports kernel packages have a dependency on initramfs-tools (>= 0.110~) | linux-initramfs-tool. They also have a Breaks: line for older initramfs-tools versions. apt-get fails to resolve this unless you add 'initramfs-tools/wheezy-backports' or '-t wheezy-backports' to the install command aptitude, however, proposes to replace initramfs-tools with dracut (which provides linux-initramfs-tool). If you keep answering 'n', it eventually proposes upgrading initramfs-tools to the version in wheezy-backports. I think that I can deal with this in the backport by either (a) removing linux-initramfs-tool as a dependency, or (b) adding a versioned alternate dependency on dracut, that is not satisfied by stable, though neither of those is very satisfactory. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Q. Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy? A. I don't know and I couldn't care less.
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