Re: Upgrade wants too many packages (X and apache).

[Virgo Pärna <virgo.parna@mail.ee>]

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:08:45 +0000, Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalhaes@eu.ipp.pt> wrote:
> Ok, i'm getting somewhere:
>
> # aptitude why apache2-mpm-prefork
> i   php-mdb2                  Depends    php-pear (>= 5.2.0-8)
> p   php-pear                  Depends    php5-common (>=
> 5.2.12.dfsg.1-2)
> p A php5-common               Recommends php5-suhosin
> i A php5-suhosin              Depends    phpapi-20060613
> p   libapache2-mod-php5filter Provides   phpapi-20060613
> p   libapache2-mod-php5filter Depends    apache2-mpm-prefork (>
> 2.0.52) | apache2-mpm-itk
>
> So in order to have sohosin i need to have apache?

    You need to have package installed, that provides phpapi-20060613. 
php5-cgi or  php5-cli should also work. It seems that problem is in order 
of resolving dependencies. You have installed php-suhosin and maybe php5-cgi 
or php5-cli installed. But old versions provide old phpapi. And depencency 
checking does not understand for some reason, that upgrading another package 
would work and wants to install first package, that provides new phpapi (and 
that is apache). If you have installed php5-cgi installed, then installing 
upgrade by installing package ("apt-get -u install php5-cgi"/
"aptitude -P install php5-cgi") should resolve this.

>
> # aptitude why xserver-xorg-video-all
> i   xserver-xorg Depends xserver-xorg-video-all | xserver-xorg-video-5
>
> Why is X now depending on a virtual package that provides a bunch of
> drivers, when all i need is one of them?! Anyway,
> xserver-xorg-video-nv provides xserver-xorg-video-5, so this shouldn't
> happen.

    I guess, that it is pretty much the same thing. It requires either 
xserver-xorg-video-all or xserver-xorg-video-5, already installed 
xserver-xorg-video-nv provides older version. You could try to install 
xserver-xorg-video-nv.
    I am just speculating, but every time, I have upgraded Debian to new 
release, I have prefered to use "aptitude safe-upgrade" and 
"aptitude install" instead of "aptitude full-upgrade". Because dist-upgrade
seems to reccoment too wild changes.

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Virgo Pärna 
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