Re: xlibs breaking dependencies
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 00:33, Andreas Wüst wrote:
>
> Am Sonntag, 27.07.03, um 14:12 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Michel
> Dänzer:
>
> > On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 13:17, Andreas Wüst wrote:
> >>
> > apt-get install xlibs=4.1.0-16
> >
> > or
> >
> > apt-get install xlibs/unstable
> >
> > (same with aptitude)
>
> Interesting. I've never seen this yet.
>
> Is it possible for packages to pin themselves?
I'd hope not. :)
> >>> 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?
> >
> > Yes. I asked about this earlier in this thread, and you said it
> > worked...
>
> Yes, of course it works if I put gnome-session and xlibs into the same
> line. But you asked about the packages which get upgraded
> *additionally*, but since gnome-session alone doesn't work, I can
> *only* tell you which packages get upgraded at all by adding xlibs, and
> not which packages are *additionally* upgraded compared to an install
> line with only gnome-session!!
I mean in addition to gnome-session and xlibs (and possibly what
gnome-session alone complains about).
> > The thing is, I can still only speculate about what you're trying to do
> > and what happens...
>
> Ok, now, a lot of ouput follows.
You can't expect to gain information by trying only one package at a
time in general, so you could have saved some. :)
> # apt-get -u -t unstable install gnome-session xlibs
>
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> The following extra packages will be installed:
[...]
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> autoconf2.13 gnome-applets gnome-panel gnome-panel-data
> libdigest-md5-perl
> libfam0
You'll probably have to upgrade those you want to keep of these.
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
This could be the reason why it wouldn't upgrade xlibs automatically; it
still doesn't tell why it needs to install these for upgrading xlibs
though, maybe some versioned dependency.
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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