Re: Packages that were held out of testing (libc6)
If any of the packages have new dependencies which do not currently
exist on your system, upgrade will not install these and will keep back
the package(s) which depend on these. New dependencies will be
installed with dist-upgrade.
'apt-get dist-upgrade' worked fine on my three systems to install the
new libc6 and many other packages (I do not have php4 installed).
Bob
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 05:20:02PM +0000, David Marsh wrote:
> [Traditional interleaved quoting: please read to end for all comments]
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>
> Daniel Bonniot wrote in gmane.linux.debian.user.testing:
> about: Packages that were held out of testing (libc6)
>
> > After the new libc6 has made it to testing, I made an apt-get update.
> > apt-get upgrade does not upgrade libc6, because it conflicts with php4,
> > which makes perfect sense. But still, a lot or packages can be upgraded,
> > although libc6 itself is not.
>
> Did the upgrade go ok on your system?
>
> With this stark warning about potential mass breakage in testing, I'm
> reluctant to upgrade at this moment in time in case anything bad
> happens! Did it work out ok for you?
>
>
> And what's the difference between 'upgrade' and 'dist-upgrade' exactly?
> (I've never been entirely sure?)
>
> With upgrade, I would get:
>
> The following packages have been kept back
> amaya bash bison bsdgames bsdutils cdda2wav cdrecord cron diffstat
> docbook-dsssl docbook-to-man fbset fdutils feh file findutils flex flexml
> gdb grep grep-dctrl hostname info lesstif-bin libc6 libc6-dev libltdl3
> libncurses5 libnss-db libpam-modules libpam0g libpcre3 libpng2 libsensors1
> libtiff3g libungif4g libwine lilo locales login mailx make mkisofs mount
> mtr-tiny mutt nano ncurses-bin nedit nfs-common nfs-kernel-server nvi passwd
> qiv sed strace syslinux tar texinfo timeout util-linux util-linux-locales
> wdg-html-validator whois winesetuptk wwwoffle yodl
> The following packages will be upgraded
> ash bc blt-common bsdmainutils cramfsprogs dash dc dialog glibc-doc gnupg
> lesstif1 libpam-runtime ncurses-base ncurses-term procmail setserial
> sharutils traceroute wine-doc
> 19 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 67 not upgraded.
> Need to get 7397kB of archives. After unpacking 2233kB will be used.
>
>
>
> With dist-upgrade, I would get:
>
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> php4
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> libdate-calc-perl
> The following packages have been kept back
> lesstif-bin
> The following packages will be upgraded
> amaya ash bash bc bison blt-common bsdgames bsdmainutils bsdutils cdda2wav
> cdrecord cramfsprogs cron dash dc dialog diffstat docbook-dsssl
> docbook-to-man fbset fdutils feh file findutils flex flexml gdb glibc-doc
> gnupg grep grep-dctrl hostname info lesstif1 libc6 libc6-dev libltdl3
> libncurses5 libnss-db libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g libpcre3
> libpng2 libsensors1 libtiff3g libungif4g libwine lilo locales login mailx
> make mkisofs mount mtr-tiny mutt nano ncurses-base ncurses-bin ncurses-term
> nedit nfs-common nfs-kernel-server nvi passwd procmail qiv sed setserial
> sharutils strace syslinux tar texinfo timeout traceroute util-linux
> util-linux-locales wdg-html-validator whois wine-doc winesetuptk wwwoffle
> yodl
> 85 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> Need to get 43.8MB of archives. After unpacking 16.3MB will be used.
>
>
>
> (A substantial difference, and would include the potentially(?)
> dangerous libc upgrade..?)
>
>
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