Re: [MoM] Summary of first mentoring period
Hi Andreas,
I have committed my changes.
On Mar 7, 2012, at 2:39 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> So you are working on stable which is fine. Please try
>
> apt-cache policy lintian
>
> It should mention newer versions for testing and unstable. If not
> please adapt your sources.list to also mention those distributions.
> However, you need to make sure that your system is not spoiled and
> you can usually do this by
>
> $ cat /etc/apt/preferences
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=stable
> Pin-Priority: 501
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 101
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=unstable
> Pin-Priority: 50
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=experimental
> Pin-Priority: 5
>
>
> Or something like this (see man apt_preferences). This enables you to
> install for instance lintian from unstable via:
>
> apt-get install -t unstable lintian
>
> Even more clever is to do the following:
>
> $ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/01-linitan.pref /etc/apt/preferences.d/01-debian-policy.pref
> Package: lintian
> Pin: release a=unstable
> Pin-Priority: 605
> Package: debian-policy
> Pin: release a=unstable
> Pin-Priority: 605
>
>
> This ensures that you always have the latest lintian and debian-policy
> packages installed on your stable system.
Yes, okay this sounds familiar. I had updated /etc/apt/preferences awhile back so that I had access to testing and unstable. However, trying to install lintian from unstable gives me errors.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
initscripts : Breaks: console-setup (< 1.74) but 1.68+squeeze2 is to be installed
Breaks: nfs-common (< 1:1.2.5-3) but 1:1.2.2-4squeeze2 is to be installed
libgnome-keyring0 : Breaks: gnome-keyring (< 3.0) but 2.30.3-5 is to be installed
network-manager : Recommends: crda but it is not going to be installed
Breaks: network-manager-gnome (< 0.9) but 0.8.1-2 is to be installed
So I guess this means that I need some other packages from unstable. I tried:
apt-get install -t unstable gnome-keyring
and it wants to install over 300 packages! I remember the last time I tried doing this, my system became unbootable and had to reinstall from scratch. Luckily now I work with virtual machines, so I'm gonna make a copy, then try updating all of this stuff to see if it actually works.
cheers
Scott
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