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- Subject: x11-common: Upgrade is very inconvenient
- From: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
- Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 22:44:13 +0200
- Message-id: <20060604204413.GA26396@ipxXXXXX>
Package: x11-common Version: 7.0.20 Severity: important Short story: ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Upgrade from 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 to 7.0.20 failed (in testing). The error message was very generic and did not give enough details to acutally handle the problem. An (not-anymore) Debian package was removed (which had files in /usr/X11R6/bin/) but even then (when only Debian packages had files in /usr/X11R6/bin/) x11-common refused to upgrade. Only after removing all packages which have files in /usr/X11R6/bin/ x11-common upgrades. At a minimum, the output of for i in /usr/X11R6/bin/*; do dpkg -S $i; done |awk '{print $1}' | sort -u | less should be given to the user. This bug looks similar to #370353 (but I am not given any details) Since I try to keep informed of Debian developments, I already heard about this problem before (sorry, did not see a bug), so I was able to cope. Less informed/experienced people might not. Long story ~~~~~~~~~~ I currently try to upgrade to x11-common_1%3a7.0.20. However, the upgrade always fails because x11-common claims some files to be left in /usr/X11R6/bin which need removing. I tried to upgrade other packages (besides X) first, so to get as little files as possible in this directory; but every "dist-upgrade" call now fails because apt-get insists on updating x11-common first. This machine is a amd64 install (sid/testing) from around fall 2004. I am almost pure Debian so I expected this directory to be almost empty already, but no: appres atobm bdftopcf bdftruncate beforelight bggen bitmap bmtoa ccmakedep cleanlinks cxpm dga editres fslsfonts fstobdf gccmakedep getconfig getconfig.pl glxgears glxinfo iceauth ico imake listres lndir luit makedepend makeg makestrs mergelib mkcfm mkdirhier mkfontdir mkfontscale mkhtmlindex oclock pcitweak revpath rstart rstartd rstartd.real sessreg setxkbmap showfont showrgb smproxy startx sxpm ucs2any vdcomp viewres x11perf x11perfcomp xauth xauth_switch_to_sun-des-1 xbiff xcalc xclipboard xclock xcmap xcmsdb xconsole xcursorgen xcutsel xdbedizzy xditview xdpyinfo xdriinfo xedit xev xeyes xfd xfindproxy xfontsel xfs xfsinfo xgamma xgc xhost xinit xkbbell xkbcomp xkbevd xkbprint xkbvleds xkbwatch xkill xload xlogo xlsatoms xlsclients xlsfonts xmag xman Xmark xmessage xmkmf xmodmap xmore xon xorgcfg xorgconfig xprop xrandr xrdb xrefresh xset xsetmode xsetpointer xsetroot xsm xstdcmap xtrapchar xtrapin xtrapinfo xtrapout xtrapproto xtrapreset xtrapstats xv xvidtune xvinfo xvpictoppm xwd xwininfo xwud Thanks to dpkg -S I see that four packages are responsible for these files: xbase-clients, xfs, xutils and xv. The first three are stock Debian, the last one is no longer (used to be in woody, my recompile in Sarge). So I remove it, but the upgrade of x11-common still fails. To be sure, I recheck the package owners of files in /usr/X11R6/bin/: xbase-clients, xfs, and xutils. So I try to update those specifically: apt-get install xbase-clients xfs xutils remaxp:~# env LANG=C apt-get install xbase-clients xfs xutils Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libfontenc1 libxfont1 x11-common xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils xutils-dev Suggested packages: x-window-system-core x-window-system mesa-utils The following NEW packages will be installed: libfontenc1 libxfont1 xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils xutils-dev The following packages will be upgraded: x11-common xbase-clients xfs xutils 4 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 99 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. Same error. So I remove them, which also removes ark arson gdm gksu gnucash gnucash-common gsfonts-x11 k3b k3b-i18n kalzium kappfinder karbon kate kcontrol kde-i18n-de kdebase kdebase-bin kdebase-kio-plugins kdelibs kdelibs-bin kdelibs4c2a kdepasswd kdeprint kdesktop kfind khelpcenter kicker klipper kmenuedit koffice-libs konq-plugins konqueror konqueror-nsplugins konsole kpager kpersonalizer ksmserver ksplash kspread ksvg ksysguard ktip kwin libgksu1.2-0 libgksuui1.0-1 libk3b2 libkdeedu3 libkonq4 ttf-thryomanes x-ttcidfont-conf xawtv xbase-clients xfonts-base-transcoded xfs xtranslate xutils In the first run, khelpcenter could note be removed, but worked on second try, but now I have errors on x11-common libfs6 libfontenc1 libxfont1 xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi xfonts-scalable xfonts-base for example: dpkg: Abhängigkeitsprobleme verhindern Konfiguration von xfonts-scalable: xfonts-scalable hängt ab von xfonts-utils; aber: Package xfonts-utils is not configured yet. But now x11-common installs. This is not a user-friendly upgrade procedure. My suggestion would be to run something like for i in /usr/X11R6/bin/*; do dpkg -S $i; done |awk '{print $1}' | sort -u | less and hand the output to the user, so he know at least the culprits. And instead of simply failing, if possible for Debian packages, some "magic" should be added which takes care of upgrading Debian packages properly (I assume such magic is already present, but somehow it did not work in my case). -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.deb-7-grsec Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages x11-common depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.1 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.16.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii lsb-base 3.1-5 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip x11-common recommends no packages. -- debconf information: * x11-common/xwrapper/allowed_users: Console Users Only x11-common/experimental_packages: x11-common/xwrapper/actual_allowed_users: console x11-common/xwrapper/nice_value/error: * x11-common/upgrade_issues: * x11-common/xwrapper/nice_value: 0 * x11-common/x11r6_bin_not_empty: -- Dr. Helge Kreutzmann debian@helgefjell.de Dipl.-Phys. http://www.helgefjell.de/debian.php 64bit GNU powered gpg signed mail preferred Help keep free software "libre": http://www.ffii.de/Attachment: signature.asc
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- To: 370372-done@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#370372: x11-common: Upgrade is very inconvenient
- From: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>
- Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 07:23:47 +0200
- Message-id: <46552163.5000701@ens-lyon.org>
Closing since the 6.9->7.0 transition is long gone, and all programs found in /usr/X11R6/bin in this report are already covered by appropriate conflicts. Brice
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