Bug#571771: Couldn't configure pre-depend ... probably a dependency cycle
Hi,
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 11:32:40PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 11:00:45PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
>
> > And dist-upgrade (or full-upgrade I think is what aptitude calls it)?
>
> "apt-get dist-upgrade", "aptitude dist-upgrade" and "aptitude
Weird. Just tried a squeeze->sid upgrade myself and apt-get dist-upgrade
*did* work for me. (The rest not, yes)
> > Who said that safe-upgrade will work in all dependency cases?
>
> "apt-get dist-upgrade" and "aptitude dist-upgrade" also want to do
> crazy things from time to time... IMHO giving an explicit list of
True, but they are there for dist-upgrades. Which is what you do.
safe-upgrade basically is the equivalent of apt-get upgrade which is
basically only suitable when you have a relatively stable env without much
changing dependencies. Which neither sid nor testing is :-)
Grüße/Regards,
René
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