Bug#310490: A Prisonner of the dependency hell
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 06:51:00PM -0400, astronut wrote:
> On 5/28/05, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > So, this works:
> >
> > aptitude markauto libqt3
> > perl -pi -e's/stable/sarge/' /etc/apt/sources.list
> > apt-get update
> > aptitude dist-upgrade
> <snip>
>
> Except it doesn't.
>
> I attempted this on the full system (vmware), as opposed to the
> smaller test case and had 126 packages slated for removal. Complete
> log of session below. As before, it's a vmware box, and I have
> multiple copies so one click reverts it back and forth between sarge
> and woody. Let me know any other tests you want me to try.
Ah, thanks for your offer. Could you try to point sources.list to sarge
and do
apt-get update
aptitude install aptitude perl
aptitude -f dist-upgrade
IIRC, that work with my test case.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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