Re: Unpacking ad infinitum
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 10:22:46PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 08:07:37PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > > Everytime I run `apt-get upgrade', apt wants to reinstall `doc-linux-text' and
> > > > `doc-linux-html'.
> > >
> > > What version of apt?
> >
> > 0.3.11 (upgraded by `apt-get update; apt-get upgrade -u' yesterday).
> >
> > But it happened with the previous version of apt, too. I've been seeing this
> > problem since many weeks.
>
> drow:/drow# apt-get install doc-linux-text doc-linux-html
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Sorry, doc-linux-text is already the newest version
> Sorry, doc-linux-html is already the newest version
>
> So I don't seem to have a problem here. Afraid I can't test an actual
> apt-get upgrade:
>
> 268 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 17 not
> upgraded.
I tried removing doc-linux-text and doc-linux-html first, but that doesn't
help. 100% reproducible:
Script started on Thu Jul 22 23:26:23 1999
[23:26:23]~# apt-get install doc-linux-text- doc-linux-html-
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
doc-linux-text doc-linux-html
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 23 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 19.8MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 70724 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing doc-linux-html ...
Removing doc-linux-text ...
[23:26:44]~# apt-get install doc-linux-text doc-linux-html
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
doc-linux-text doc-linux-html
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 23 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/8109kB of archives. After unpacking 19.8MB will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package doc-linux-text.
(Reading database ... 68300 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking doc-linux-text (from /var/cache/apt/archives/doc-linux-text_1999.06-1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package doc-linux-html.
Unpacking doc-linux-html (from .../doc-linux-html_99.06-1_all.deb) ...
Setting up doc-linux-text (1999.06-1) ...
Setting up doc-linux-html (99.06-1) ...
[23:27:24]~# apt-get upgrade -u
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
gtk-doc-tools latex2html mailtools cdlabelgen perl perl-debug libdbi-perl
acct libhtml-parser-perl perl-base libgnome-perl libnet-telnet-perl
perl-suid info2www libtimedate-perl dpkg-dev libnet-perl libmime-base64-perl
fvwm-common sgml-data libwww-perl perlmagick weblint
The following packages will be upgraded
doc-linux-text doc-linux-html
2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 23 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/8109kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 70724 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace doc-linux-text 1999.06-1 (using /var/cache/apt/archives/doc-linux-text_1999.06-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement doc-linux-text ...
Preparing to replace doc-linux-html 99.06-1 (using .../doc-linux-html_99.06-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement doc-linux-html ...
Setting up doc-linux-text (1999.06-1) ...
Setting up doc-linux-html (99.06-1) ...
[23:28:16]~# exit
Script done on Thu Jul 22 23:28:17 1999
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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