Re: Tar dependencies broken?
I see the same problem; the upgrade tools (e.g. apt-get dist-upgrade
or aptitude) are eager to remove lots of woody packages. The problem
seems to be that the new tar knocks out cpio, and this in turn takes
out dpkg-dev, which takes out a lot of things.
Here's my list of affected packages:
The following packages will be REMOVED:
apt-move build-essential cpio cvs-buildpackage debhelper debmake devscripts dh-make dpkg-dev i2c-source
kernel-package lm-sensors-source realplayer
aptitude shows cpio 2.4.2-38 as the latest, and it's installed on my
system (but scheduled for removal because tar 1.13.25-1 replaces it).
This is with woody sources as of right now. cpio 2.4.2-39 does not
show up.
tar shows as conflicting with cpio <= 2.4.2-38 and replacing cpio (no
version #).
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 07:53:57AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 01:04:51PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> > Fortunately I added the -s option in today's dist-upgrade and saw that
> > quite a few packages which I regard as important will be removed. I
> > figured out that it has to do with a new version of tar:
>
> Get apt to install a new version of cpio.
>
> cpio 2.4.2-39 looks like it's available in testing, though. To the tar
> maintainer: shouldn't the 'Replaces: cpio' be 'Replaces: cpio (<=
> 2.4.2-38)'? Perhaps this will encourage the packaging system to make
> better decisions. Sorry to bring this up so close to the base freeze ...
>
> > $ sudo apt-get install tar
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > The following packages will be REMOVED:
> > alien build-essential cpio debhelper debmake debsums device3dfx-source
> > dh-make dpkg-dev initrd-tools kernel-package
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
>
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