Re: Can apt be steered?
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 05:53:04PM -0400, Timothy H. Keitt wrote:
> If the package doesn't say "Helix", purge it. You don't
> need any non-helix gnome packages to have a working gnome
> distribution.
> >
> > apt-get upgrade broke my Gnome this weekend. Looking in my apt/archives, I
> > see that I have a gnome-bin (and maybe some other Gnome-related packages)
> > that is not from Helix and I suspect that is the source of my problem. So,
> > does anybody know a way to steer apt preferentially. That is, how can I
> > ensure that .debs from debian/woody/main don't replace the ones from Helix
> > that are presumably "integrated" to work together?
The problem is with packages such as gnome-bin_1.2.4-helix4_i386.deb,
which is from helixcode and gnome-bin_1.2.5-1_i386.deb, which is from
Debian woody. On Sunday, the latter replaced the former, which seems
reasonable to apt-get because it has a higher version number, but it (or
some other conflicting gnome package) caused gmc to cease working.
Shortly after I posted my original question, Helix updated that
particular package to 1.2.5-helix1, which apt-get nicely installed for
me. So maybe the only answer to my question is "be patient, Helix will
normally have a higher version than Debian woody for any given gnome
package".
As an aside, it seems that today's Helix Gnome for Debian is still a
little broken, though. I can't choose a window manager with Gnome
Control Panel, because wm-properties-capplet segfaults.
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