Re: Bug#149702: apt: requires manual fiddling to break out of inconsistent state
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 03:58:03PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Yann Dirson wrote:
>
> > Then "dselect-upgrade -f" and "install -f" wanted to remove those packages.
>
> Sounds sensible, you removed the package they need and didn't have it
> available for whatever reason.
No. I asked for installation of all of them, and only a couple of them were
unpacked before the upgrade was interrupted by an undeclared conflict.
> > kdelibs-dev" then told me that this package was needing a couple of other
> > packages that were not to be installed, I added them to my command-line, got
> > a similar message about 2 more packages, added them, so that it reads:
>
> Yes, you need to specify an *exact* solution if you do not use -f in this
> case, so you need to specify every package and all it's dependencies. You
> should have used -f with kdelibs-dev available.
But it is available ! It finally accepted to do what I asked for,
but after running a couple of commands manually. Especially, I can't
understand why I had to re-run "update" in between.
One thing that comes to my mind is that after the 1st conflict, I ran "dpkg
--configure -a" before re-running dselect-upgrade. But that would not have
caused such a side-effect ?
Regards,
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