Re: Full-upgrade (apt vs cupt)
On 2009-09-23 08:49 +0200, Javier Barroso wrote:
> I wanted to test cupt [1], and then I tried a full-upgrade.
>
> aptitude is not capable to resolve dependencies, but cupt yes. Like
> cupt is very new, I would like to ask about why do you think this diff
> is here:
>
> # LANG=C aptitude full-upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> The following packages are BROKEN:
> libempathy-gtk19 libempathy23 telepathy-mission-control-5
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> empathy-doc{a} geoclue{a} geoclue-hostip{a} geoclue-localnet{a}
> geoclue-manual{a} geoclue-yahoo{a} libchamplain-0.4-0{a}
> libchamplain-gtk-0.4-0{a} libclutter-1.0-0{a}
> libclutter-gtk-0.10-0{a} libempathy-gtk28{a} libempathy30{a}
> libgeoclue0{a}
> libnm-glib0{a} libnm-util1{a}
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> empathy libempathy-common libempathy-gtk-common
> 3 packages upgraded, 16 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 1264kB/4890kB of archives. After unpacking 8774kB will be used.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> libempathy23: Depends: libempathy-common (= 2.26.2-1) but 2.28.0-1
> is to be installed.
> libempathy-gtk19: Depends: libempathy-gtk-common (= 2.26.2-1) but
> 2.28.0-1 is to be installed.
> telepathy-mission-control-5: Conflicts: telepathy-mission-control
> but 4.67-4 is installed.
> The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
>
> Keep the following packages at their current version:
> empathy [2.26.2-1 (now)]
> libempathy-common [2.26.2-1 (now)]
> libempathy-gtk-common [2.26.2-1 (now)]
> libempathy-gtk28 [Not Installed]
> libempathy30 [Not Installed]
> telepathy-mission-control-5 [Not Installed]
>
> Tier: Safe actions (10000)
>
> Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q
You should press n instead and see what else aptitude has to offer. The
new resolver in aptitude 0.5.9 is over-cautious and its first suggestion
is apparently always a solution that does not remove packages. For the
full-upgrade action this is rather undesirable.
> # cupt full-upgrade
> W: attempt to set wrong option 'apt::periodic::update-package-lists'
> W: attempt to set wrong option 'apt::periodic::download-upgradeable-packages'
> Building the package cache... [done]
> Initializing package resolver and worker... [done]
> Scheduling requested actions... [done]
> Resolving possible unmet dependencies...
> The following 16 packages will be INSTALLED:
>
> empathy-doc geoclue geoclue-hostip geoclue-localnet geoclue-manual
> geoclue-yahoo libchamplain-0.4-0 libchamplain-gtk-0.4-0
> libclutter-1.0-0 libclutter-gtk-0.10-0 libempathy-gtk28 libempathy30
> libgeoclue0 libnm-glib0 libnm-util1 telepathy-mission-control-5
>
> The following 3 packages will be UPGRADED:
>
> empathy libempathy-common libempathy-gtk-common
>
> The following 3 packages will be REMOVED:
>
> libempathy-gtk19 libempathy23 telepathy-mission-control
>
> Need to get 1235KiB/4775KiB of archives. After unpacking 7432B will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [y/N/q] q
>
> Is cupt resolver better than aptitude ones ? Or will it depend of the
> case and packages status ?
>
> Maybe aptitude is more conservative than cupt
The version in experimental, yes.
Sven
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