On 2005-09-28T13:40-0400 Filipus Klutiero wrote:
>> To reply to the list, check for example the "*Reply to:*"
>> "debian-user@lists.debian.org
>>
<mailto:debian-user@lists.debian.org?In-Reply-To=%3C20050922054109.GC9985@iki.fi%3E&Subject=Re:%20upgrade%20problem>"
>> on http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/09/msg02773.html
>> That works with Mozilla Thunderbird.
I am using mutt. Please feel free to forward to the thread.
>> Sorry for my last mail. I didn't check what APT was doing
carefully, and
>> I thought perl was upgrading, not being removed.
>> However, I'd still need to know what releases you're using. That
>> dist-upgrade is pulling gcc4, so you obviously have some form of
>> sarge/sid mix. What's the default release? Again it would be useful to
>> have an $ apt-show-versions -u|grep unstable if your default
release is
>> sarge.
>> The apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes dist-upgrade output is
>> nevertheless surprinsingly useless.
It's not a mix. At least it shouldn't be.
bible$ sudo apt-get update
Password:
Get:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Packages [3794kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Release [82B]
Get:3 http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Sources [1452kB]
Get:4 http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Release [84B]
Fetched 5246kB in 8s (633kB/s)
Reading Package Lists... Done
bible$ sudo apt-get install apt-show-versions
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
apt-show-versions: Depends: perl but it is not going to be installed or
perl-5.005 but it is not installable or
perl-5.004 but it is not installable
Depends: libstorable-perl
E: Broken packages
bible$
AHA!!!
bible$ cat /etc/apt/preferences
Explanation: Pinned by apt-listbugs at Thu Sep 01 22:46:12 BST 2005
Explanation: #231082: spamassassin: spamc hangs since most recent
perl package updates for stable
Explanation: #283320: perl FTBFS on mipsel/lasat, but not on
mipsel/cobalt
Package: perl
Pin: version 5.8.4-8
Pin-Priority: 1000
I removed it and it works!
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Investigating libsigc++-1.2-5c2
Investigating libaspell15
Investigating libgc1c2
Investigating libapache2-mod-php4
Investigating libsp1c2
Investigating libosp4c2
Investigating libgmp3c2
Investigating libostyle1c2
The following packages will be REMOVED:
aspell-bin libgc1 libgmp3 libosp4 libostyle1 libsigc++-1.2-5c102 libsp1
The following NEW packages will be installed:
cpp-4.0 dmidecode fastjar g++-4.0 gcc-4.0 gcc-4.0-base laptop-detect
libaa1
libcairo2 libcupsys2 libedit2 libfs6 libgc1c2 libgmp3c2 libgnutls12
libltdl3
libmagick9 libmysqlclient14 libosp4c2 libostyle1c2 libpq4 libselinux1
libsepol1 libsigc++-1.2-5c2 libslang2 libsp1c2 libstdc++6
libstdc++6-4.0-dev
libxinerama1 libxxf86dga1 libxxf86vm1 linux-image-2.6-386
linux-image-2.6.12-1-386 linux-sound-base lsb-base mysql-client-4.1
mysql-server-4.1 openssh-client openssh-server python2.3-apt
python2.4-minimal readline-common x11-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
adduser alsa-base alsa-utils apache apache-common apache2-common
apache2-mpm-worker apache2-utils apt apt-utils aptitude aspell aspell-en
aview bash binutils bitlbee bsdutils bzip2 console-common coreutils
cpio cpp
cpp-3.3 cron debhelper devscripts dictionaries-common doc-linux-text
dovecot-common dpatch dpkg dput dselect exim4 exim4-base
exim4-daemon-light
fakeroot fileutils findutils g++ g++-3.3 gcc gcc-3.3 gcc-3.3-base
gjdoc gnupg
grep groff-base html2text imagemagick initscripts irssi-text jikes kaffe
kaffe-common kaffe-pthreads kernel-image-2.6-386 libapache-mod-php4
libapr0
libaspell15 libatk1.0-0 libbz2-1.0 libcupsys2-gnutls10 libdbd-mysql-perl
libdbi-perl libdps1 libgcc1 libglib2.0-0 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin
libgtk2.0-common libhtml-tagset-perl libice6 libldap2 liblircclient0
liblocale-gettext-perl libmagick6 libnewt0.51 libpam-modules
libpam-runtime
libpam0g libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpcre3 libperl5.8 libpng12-0
libreadline4 libreadline5 libruby1.8 libsm6 libssl0.9.7 libstdc++5
libstdc++5-3.3-dev libsvn0 libtext-iconv-perl libx11-6 libxaw7 libxext6
libxi6 libxml2 libxmu6 libxpm4 libxrandr2 libxt6 libxtst6 libxv1 login
logrotate lsof maildrop mairix man-db module-init-tools mount mutt
mysql-client mysql-common mysql-server netbase nmap openjade openssl
passwd
pciutils perl perl-base perl-modules php4 php4-common php4-gd php4-mysql
phpmyadmin pia pppoeconf python-apt python-newt python-sqlite
python2.3-sqlite python2.3-subversion python2.4 python2.4-examples
rkhunter
ruby1.8 scantv sed setserial shellutils sp ssh streamer subversion
subversion-tools sudo svn-buildpackage sysv-rc sysvinit tasksel telnet
tetex-bin textutils ucf util-linux util-linux-locales v4l-conf vim
vim-common
w3m webcam whiptail whois xawtv xawtv-plugins xfree86-common xlibmesa-gl
xlibs-data xutils
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