Re: aptitude security updates

[roberto <roberto03@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Ansgar Burchardt<ansgar@43-1.org> wrote:
>
> The updates for sarge seem to be available from archive.debian.org as
> well.  You should try replacing the last line with
>
>  deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-security/ sarge main contrib non-free
the issue about security archives is solved;

now i am performing the upgrade, following the debian release notes
and i met this problem:
release notes say it is better to upgrade the kernel well before the
total dist-upgrade;
when i issue:
# aptitude upgrade
no problem
then
# aptitude install initrd-tools
no problem
then
# aptitude install x11-common libfam0 xlibmesa-glu
no particular problem

then
# aptitude install linux-image-2.6-686
i receive the following message

"Some packages had unmet dependencies.  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.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  linux-image-2.6-686: Depends: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 but it is not
installable"

and if i try to do directly
# aptitude dist-upgrade
i receive the following

"Some packages had unmet dependencies.  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.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  automake1.4: Conflicts: automake but 1:1.10+nogfdl-1 is to be installed.
  xlibmesa-glu: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installable
                Conflicts: libglu1 which is a virtual package.
  libglu1-mesa: Conflicts: libglu1 which is a virtual package.
  libfam0c102: Conflicts: libfam0 but 2.7.0-12 is to be installed.
  xlibmesa-gl-dev: Depends: xlibmesa-gl (= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14) but
1:7.1.0-19 is to be installed.
                   Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installable
                   Conflicts: libgl-dev which is a virtual package.
  libgl1-mesa-dev: Conflicts: libgl-dev which is a virtual package."

it seems xfree86-common has not been removed, but it should, according
to the release notes, after i issued:
# aptitude install x11-common libfam0 xlibmesa-glu

instead it is still running; as a matter of fact the X session has
never been disconnected during all this operations, as i have checked

if you have any idea, thank you in advance




-- 
roberto