Re: Upgrade to Sid from Squeeze not happy...
On 2009-04-05 23:48 +0200, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I'm trying to take one of my G4 Macs from Squeeze to Sid, so I can
> investigate the reported problems with the 2.6.29 kernel in Sid on
> PowerPC.
>
> I get the following diagnostic from "aptitude update; aptitude safe-
> upgrade":
>
>> The following packages have been kept back:
>> gnumeric-common thunar-data xfce4 xfdesktop4-data xfwm4-themes{a}
>
>
> If I do "aptitude update ; aptitude full-upgrade" instead, I get:
On a side note, I never use the full-upgrade command because it has the
potential to remove a huge number of packages, and safe-upgrade handles
most situations (like library transitions) just fine.
>> The following packages are BROKEN:
>> xfce4 xfwm4-themes
>> ... ... ...
>> 246 packages upgraded, 75 newly installed, 51 to remove and 3 not
>> upgraded.
>> Need to get 374MB of archives. After unpacking 36.4MB will be freed.
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>> xfce4: Depends: xfwm4 (>= 4.6.0) but 4.4.2-5 is installed.
>> Depends: xfconf (>= 4.6.0) which is a virtual package.
>> Depends: xfce4-settings (>= 4.6.0) which is a virtual
>> package.
>> Depends: xfce4-panel (>= 4.6.0) but 4.4.2-6 is installed.
>> Depends: xfdesktop4 (>= 4.6.0) but 4.4.2-7 is installed.
>> Depends: thunar (>= 1.0.0) but 0.9.0-10 is installed.
>> Depends: thunar-volman (>= 0.3.80) but it is not installable
>> Depends: xfce4-utils (>= 4.6.0) but 4.4.2-8 is installed.
>> Depends: xfce4-session (>= 4.6.0) but 4.4.2-6 is installed.
>> xfwm4-themes: Depends: xfwm4 (>= 4.6.0) but 4.4.2-5 is installed.
>> The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
>>
>> Keep the following packages at their current version:
>> xfce4 [4.4.2.1 (now)]
>> xfwm4-themes [4.4.2-1 (now)]
>>
>> Score is 130
>>
>> Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
>
> First of all, why does "full-upgrade" say "and 3 not upgraded" when
> there seem to be only two un-upgradable packages?
The three other packages are not upgradable either, but it seems that
aptitude's resolver detects that earlier (probably because they directly
depend on a package that is not available yet). Actually you have five
un-upgradable packages.
> Second, the "4.6.0" versions of all those packages are available on my
> i386 Sid box.
Are you sure? They only seem to be available on amd64.
> Why haven't they made it to PowerPC yet?
They have not yet been built. In the case of xfce4, that involves
building some other packages, so this may take a few days. Such
temporary uninstallabilities are normal in sid, especially during
transitions (which are frequent after a release).
Sven
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