Re: partial upgrade confusion

[Remy Indebetouw <remy@astro.wisc.edu>]

Thanks for the reply; The thing I don't understand is if all the other
upgrades are tied to upgrading libc6, how I got libc6 on
there in the first place without upgrading the rest (I've got
libc6-2.2.5-3 according to dselect).  Given that everything seems to be
happy with libc6-2.2.5-3, can I just force it to install libc6-dev and
leave libc6 and associated dependencies alone?  Perhaps my understanding of
dependencies is faulty?

Attempting to get the newer apt has the same problem of
libc6 showing up as needing to be installed/upgraded, and then all the
other packages as well.

Thanks,
-remy

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Vineet Kumar wrote:

> Also, if you get only one thing from woody, let it be apt. You should
> set yourself up with a nice /etc/apt/preferences to make running a
> hybrid (potato/woody) system MUCH easier to maintain.
>
> > Why do all these other packages depend on libc6-dev?  (as opposed to
> > libc6)
>
> Not the case; see below.
>
> > >apt-get install libc6-dev
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > The following extra packages will be installed:
> >   debconf debconf-utils debhelper dialog dpkg-dev esound esound-common
> > freeciv
> >   gnome-games-locale html2text imlib-base libart2 libbonobo2 libbz2-1.0
> > libc6
>   ^^^^^
> there's the rub.
>
> dpkg -s libc6-dev | grep "Version\|Depends"
> Version: 2.2.5-3
> Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.5-3)
>
> The -dev depends on the libc6 package, which in turn wants to upgrade
> *everything* else.