Re: Obsolete and broken packages
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On 29 Sep 1999, Jonas Steverud wrote:
> When I start dselect I get this:
>
> --- Obsolete and local packages present on system ---
> ----- Obsolete/local Standard packages -----
> ------- Obsolete/local Standard packages in section libs -------
> *** Std libs liblockfile0 0.1-6 <none>
> ----- Obsolete/local Optional packages -----
> ------- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section base -------
> *== Opt base kernel-image 2.0.35-3 <none>
> ------- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section libs -------
> *** Opt libs libjpegg6a 6a-12 <none>
> ----- Obsolete/local Extra packages -----
> ------- Obsolete/local Extra packages in section libs -------
> *** Xtr libs clanlib0-dis 0.1.16-2 <none>
"Obsolete/local" means that a deb is installed that's not on any of the
sources in your apt sources.list (or equivalent)
> 1. Can I safely purge kernel-image? I have a custom-built kernel
> 2.2.10. (Using kernel-package or whatever the program is.)
Go for it.
> 2. Can I purge the other files or are they bound to turn up in the
> (near?) future? The reason I ask is I have found other packages to
> become obsolete and then turn up after a couple of weeks. (My mind
> might have been tampered with though.)
Sometimes the mirror maintainers just misadjust something, and a package
gets lost. Other times, a package is removed from the distribution for
being obsolete.
Just recently i removed liblockfile0 from my own system when the the final
dependancy on it was removed. IIRC it has been replaced with liblockfile1
clanlib0-display-whateveritis i removed a long time ago, since i never
used that display target. YMMV.
xloadimage still depends on libjpegg6a, so i'm keeping that one on my
system for the moment. Hopefully soon the dependancy is fixed.
> 3. Dselect says that fonty is broken. One of the files
> (/etc/init.d/fonty) is missing on my system (I didn't want it to be
> ran so I removed it) and now dpkg can't install and configure it
> properly. (It was some time since I installed it so I don't
> remember the exact errormessage.) How can I repair the package
> and/or tell dpkg the package is not broken? Edit the status-file?
> (Which says "Status: hold ok half-configured".)
Without the exact error message, i don't know what advice to give...
Others surely have more experience with this than i.
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