RE: Testing wants to remove most of my system...
i had something > similar < apparently had to do with perl (here too ?),
took the risk, machine still works ... had to reinstall a bit. This, of
course, is caused by some package wich is set to be removed and causes a
cascade of dependencies to be activated. Most of the time this can be caused
by a lib wich is upgraded/obsolete between versions, things like this can
happen
>>>>> might be bug too : make sure you don't break you machine's critical
files (you'll see a warning then) <<<<<<
-----Original Message-----
From: Kent West [mailto:westk@acu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 7:00 PM
To: Damon Muller
Cc: Debian User List
Subject: Re: Testing wants to remove most of my system...
Damon Muller wrote:
> Quoth Joey Hess,
>
>
>> It's impossible to tell what you're running into since you didn't bother
>> to post the actual apt message or any useful diagnostic information, but
>> you might try removing base-config.
>
> Sorry, didn't include the (quite long) output previously on the off chance
> that it was something simple/obvious. The full apt-get output is included
> below.
>
> [rei:~]% sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Calculating Upgrade... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> a2ps acct adduser alien arts auctex balsa bonobo bsdmainutils bubblemon
> bug-buddy cdrdao chbg codecommander crypt++el data-dumper debconf
debhelper
> debview dh-make dia djtools eeyes emacs20 emacsen-common emusic
> enlightenment enscript equivs esound esound-clients esound-common
ethereal
> extace freeamp gaim-gnome gcd gcombust gdk-imlib-dev gdm gedit ghex
> ghostview gimp1.1 gimp1.1-nonfree gimp1.1-perl glade-gnome gmc
gnome-applets
> gnome-apt gnome-bin gnome-card-games gnome-control-center gnome-core
> gnome-games gnome-gataxx gnome-glines gnome-gnibbles gnome-gnobots2
> gnome-gnometris gnome-gnomine gnome-gnotravex gnome-gtali gnome-gturing
> gnome-guile gnome-gv gnome-help gnome-iagno gnome-iconedit
gnome-mahjongg
> gnome-media gnome-network gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-pilot
gnome-pim
> gnome-pim-conduits gnome-same-gnome gnome-session gnome-stones
> gnome-terminal gnome-utils gnome-xbill gnomehack gnomeicu gnosamba
gnotepad+
> gnucash gnumeric gnuserv gpasman gphoto gqmpeg gqview grdb grip
gs-aladdin
> gs-pdfencrypt gtk-engines-gtkstep gtk-engines-metal gtk-engines-notif
> gtk-engines-pixmap gtk-engines-redmond95 gtkfind gtm gtop guitar gv
gxanim
> gxedit helix-sweetpill hyperlatex iceconf icewm-gnome imlib-dev
imlib-progs
> kaiman kmid kmidi kmix kscd latex2html libapache-asp-perl
libapache-dbi-perl
> libapache-dbilogger-perl libapache-mod-perl libcapplet-dev libcapplet0
> libdbi-perl libdigest-md5-perl libesd0 libesd0-dev libgconf11
> libgdk-pixbuf-dev libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 libgdk-pixbuf2 libgimp1.1
> libgimp1.1-dev libglade-gnome0 libglade0 libgnome-dev libgnome-pilot-dev
> libgnome-pilot0 libgnome-vfs0 libgnome32 libgnomeprint12 libgnomeprint6
> libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnorba-dev libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0
> libgtk-imlib-perl libgtk-perl libgtk1.2 libgtk1.2-dev libgtkhtml4
> libgtkhtml5 libgtkmm libgtkxmhtml1 libguilegtk0 libmedusa0 libnautilus0
> libobgnome0 libobgtk1 libpaperg libpgperl libsdl1.0 libsdl1.1-dev
libsmpeg0
> libstorable-perl libterm-readkey-perl libwine libwine-dev libwmf0
libzvt2
> lilo linpopup lynx magicfilter mailcrypt memprof mozilla mozilla-browser
> mpage mpg123-esd mswordview mtr mysql-client mysql-server nautilus
netpbm
> pan pdl perl-5.004 perl-5.004-base perl-5.004-suid perl-5.005 perl-tk
> perlmagick pkg-order premail psgml pstoedit pstotext psutils
> python-gdk-imlib python-gnome python-gtk realplayer rep-gtk
rep-gtk-gnome
> sawfish sawfish-gnome sawfish-themes screem smpeg-gtv sound-monitor
> task-helix-core task-kdemultimedia task-tex telnetd timidity uae vim-gtk
vlc
> vlc-gnome vlc-sdl webmagick wmakerconf wmmail wordinspect wxftp-gtk xalf
> xchat-gnome xemacs20-bin xemacs20-support xemacs21 xemacs21-bin
> xemacs21-mule xemacs21-support xfntil2 xlogmaster xmms xmms-dev
xscreensaver
> xserver-xfree86 xwhois
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> libperl5.6 perl perl-5.6 perl-modules
> The following packages have been kept back
> fetchmail kernel-image-2.2.17
> The following packages will be upgraded
> acroread bsdutils catdoc cron debian-policy diff docbook-stylesheets
eperl
> fftw2 file groff hdparm ibritish ispell libhdf4g libio-stringy-perl
> libmime-base64-perl libmime-perl libmldbm-perl libstringlist0
> libtimedate-perl libxml-dev libxml1 mlock mount mutt net-tools oidentd
pdksh
> perl-5.005-base perl-base shellutils ssystem stat sudo tcsh tcsh-i18n
unhtml
> untex util-linux w3m wavtools wenglish xdaliclock xnetload
> 45 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 248 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
> 2 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 19.0MB of archives. After unpacking 528MB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
>
>
My machine, pointing to unstable, is wanting to do essentially the same
thing. Hmmm. Hazards of living on the bleeding edge?
Kent
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