Backport Questions
Having seen a number of questions lately responded to by directing the
OP to backports, I decided to look into it, myself. I added backports
to my sources.list, did an update and dist-upgrade. I said 'no' to the
actual update so that I could look it over before committing myself to
it. From what I can see, I will probably just remove backports from my
sources.list.
From apt-get -u dist-upgrade:
94 upgraded, 59 newly installed, 8 to remove and 2 not upgraded
The packages to be deleted are:
mysql-client-4.1 mysql-common-4.1 mysql-server-4.1 openoffice.org-bin
openoffice.org-debian-files openoffice.org-debian-menus
openoffice.org-help-en openoffice.org-l10n-en
Now, I don't care about deleted packages as long as the equivalent is
being brought in with other packages, however, I only see 2 mysql
packages being installed:
mysql-client-5.0 mysql-common
neither of which provides mysql-server.
Also, the only openoffice files being added are:
openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-java-common
openoffice.org-l10n-en-us
Of these files:
oo.o-common replaces oo.o-debian-files
oo.o-core replace oo.o-bin
oo.o-l10n-en-us replaces oo.o-l10n-en
oo.o-common-java is new
While the help for 1.1.3 is removed, no help is installed for 2.0
Nothing replaces, or conflicts with openoffice.org-debian-files (that I
can see), yet it is being removed. I'm not surprised that it is not
mentioned (in apt-cache show) for any of the packages to be installed,
since it was from the package that I dl'd directly from
www.openoffice.org that I used to install v 2.0 previously. IOW it is
not from a Debian package, at all.
So, as near as I can tell, doing this dist-upgrade whould leave me
without a mysql server, will remove my help for oo.o 1.1 while not
providing any for oo.o 2.0 and will break the version 2.0 of oo.o that I
currently have installed.
Is this correct, or am I missing something here?
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Marc Shapiro
mshapiro_42@yahoo.com
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