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Re: current ppc sid problem



On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:13:12PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> OoO En ce début de soirée du mercredi 01 janvier 2003, vers 21:06,
> Jack Howarth <howarth@bromo.msbb.uc.edu> disait:
> 
> >     Is anyone else seeing this in current debian ppc sid? I am
> > finding that evolution gets removed whenever I do a dist-upgrade
> > that installs libgtkhtml1.1-3 which replaces libgtkhtml1.1-1.
> > It appears that evolution has a dependency on libgtkhtml1.1-1
> > that libgtkhtml1.1-3 doesn't satisfy. The only why I can get
> > evolution installed is to do a
> 
> > dpkg -i --ignore-depends=libgtkhtml1.1-1 evolution_1.2.0-4_powerpc.deb
> 
> > however while this installs evolution I am getting errors now on
> > apt-get dist-upgrade...
> 
> Following sid on a non x86 arch always leads to this kind of
> problems : packets are uploaded while they are not compiled for each
> arch. Sarge does not have this problem since a condition to be
> accepted in Sarge is to be compiled for each arch supported by Debian.

Well, if it is any help, the same situation exists on i386 also.

> The best solution is to use aptitude and to hold packets that would be
> removed otherwise (evolution in your case). This will put in hold
> packets like libgtkhtml. In a day or two, when suck packets will have
> been autobuilt and signed, you will then be able to upgrade.

Well, i think you should not use dist-upgrade but upgrade, and this
would not be a problem.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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