Re: xlibs breaking dependencies
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 09:14, Andreas Wüst wrote:
>
> Am Samstag, 26.07.03, um 00:24 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Michel
> Dänzer:
>
> > On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 00:03, Andreas Wüst wrote:
> >>
> >> Am Freitag, 25.07.03, um 23:39 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Michel
> >> Dänzer:
> >>
> >>> On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 22:50, Andreas Wüst wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I wanted to install some X11 related packages from sid, but they all
> >>>> have broken dependencies ["( ... ) but it is not going to be
> >>>> installed"]. So far, so good. When following those dependencies, it
> >>>> ultimately leads to xlibs, where it reads:
> >>>>
> >>>> xlibs (> 4.2.0) but 4.1.0-16 is to be installed
> >>>>
> >>>> Huh, I mean, what should that tell me?? If doing an apt-cache policy
> >>>> xlibs, there is a 4.2.1-9 install candidate, and when checking
> >>>> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xfree86/ there is
> >>>> obviously a binary available too. Furthermore, apt-get -u -t
> >>>> unstable
> >>>> install xlibs doesn't mention any problems.
> >>>>
> >>>> What is the problem? I am seeing this behaviour an all of my boxen,
> >>>> so
> >>>> it does not seem to be triggered by strange package combinations et
> >>>> al.
> >>>
> >>> Hard to tell without seeing exactly what you're doing and the full
> >>> output.
> >>
> >> Hmm, well, basically I wanted to do
> >>
> >> # apt-get -u -t unstable install gnome-session
> >>
> >> on one of my boxen (which is running woody ATM). This gets me a list
> >> of
> >> broken dependencies, and apt-get quits. Following those deps, I end up
> >> everywhere on said xlibs dependency (which, to be honest, I don't
> >> understand, why does it want to install 4.1.0-16 when it wants a
> >> version greater then 4.2.0 and such a version [4.2.1-9] is even
> >> available?).
> >
> > Because you have an older version installed, and you don't tell it to
> > upgrade that.
>
> Sorry, I didn't get this one! I thought, deps would be handled
> automatically?? If I tell it, for instance, to apt-get -u -t unstable
> install openoffice.org, apt-get tells me that libc6 etc. (of which I
> obviously have already an older, i.e. woody, version installed) will be
> upgraded. So, why does it not do that when trying to install
> gnome-session?
Hmm. Did you maybe pin xlibs to the older version before with something
like xlibs=4.1.0-16 or xlibs/stable? What does apt-cache policy xlibs
say?
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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