Re: Latest dist-upgrade didn't behave as expected

[jmarant@nerim.net (Jérôme Marant)]

Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:

 
>>   Unfortunately not (and Debian central tools don't have logging
>>   capabilities).
>
> apt-get upgrade &>/tmp/log & ; tail -f /tmp/log 
>
> :)))

:-)

That's why I said _and_ Debian ...

>
>>   What I recall of what's happening (3 attempts):
>>   1/ all ocaml libs have been vanished
>>   2/ ocaml-base and labglGTK files are being installed
>>   3/ ocaml is being installed
>
> Well, the idea was :
>
>   o ocaml is on hold because you have installed libs.
>
>   o if you go ahead and install ocaml by hand (apt-get install ocaml),
>     all libs will be removed.
>
> What exactly did you do ?
>
> 1) you did an apt-get install ocaml, and it did not install ocaml, but
> removed the libs ?

apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade

> 2) you then ran apt-get upgrade and ocaml-base and lablgtk where
> installed ?

I reran apt-get dist-upgrade, and yes.

> 3) you ran apt-get upgrade again and ocaml is installed (as well as the
> rest of the missing stuff ?

I ran apt-get install ocaml to get the new ocaml.

Cheers,

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Jérôme Marant

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