Hi MichelSorry, it seems as I would have introduced some heavy latency in this thread.
Am Samstag, 26.07.03, um 15:12 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Michel Dänzer:
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Because you have an older version installed, and you don't tell it toupgrade that.Sorry, I didn't get this one! I thought, deps would be handledautomatically?? If I tell it, for instance, to apt-get -u -t unstableinstall 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 somethinglike xlibs=4.1.0-16 or xlibs/stable?No. There is no /etc/apt/preferences at all.Here neither, pinning with <package>=<version> or <package>/<release> isindependent from that.
Huh? But, how do I do that and were does this get saved? At least, I wouldn't have done that intentionally.
Another possibility is that other packages somehow prevent apt from upgrading xlibs automatically. If you add it to the install line, does it cause other packages to be upgraded additionally as well?
Add to which install line? The one with gnome-session? Since install gnome-session doesn't work out and simply quits with "E: Sorry, broken packages", it won't give me any packages which are to be upgraded.
Yet another possibility is simply an apt bug I guess. :) Have you tried apt from sid yet?
No, because it's not how I'd like my systems to work. I want to have the system tools from stable whilst not so crucial software from sid (like xfree86, gnome, etc.). Otherwise, I could do a dist-upgrade and not mind running a mixed system.
Furthermore, setting the default release to "woody" in apt.conf doesnot have any influence, i.e. it still gives the broken deps if I renameapt.conf.Sure, -t overrides that.
Aah, yes, ok. -- Best wishes, Andi