Bug#176643: marked as done (apt (and dselect) not updating the installed and/or available lists)
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Subject: apt (and dselect) not updating the installed and/or available lists
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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
I'm running mostly stable, with some "testing" and "unstable" packages (mostly
cupsd, which is somewhat buggy in stable).
Very recently, apt started giving me strange behaviour : for example, apt-get
doesn't records its own installation :
yod:~# apt-get dist-upgrade -u -s | less
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following packages have been kept back
cupsys fortunes-fr xine-ui
The following packages will be upgraded
r-base r-base-core r-base-dev r-base-html r-base-latex r-doc-html
r-recommended
7 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Inst r-base-core (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Inst r-base-html (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Inst r-base-latex (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Inst r-base (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Inst r-base-dev (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Inst r-doc-html (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Inst r-recommended (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-base-core (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-base-html (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-base-latex (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-base (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-base-dev (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-doc-html (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-recommended (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
yod:~# apt-get dist-upgrade -u
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back
cupsys fortunes-fr xine-ui
The following packages will be upgraded
r-base r-base-core r-base-dev r-base-html r-base-latex r-doc-html
r-recommended
7 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/10.6MB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. # may come
# from a brevous attempt
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 110690 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace r-base-core 1.6.2-1 (using .../r-base-core_1.6.2-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement r-base-core ...
Preparing to replace r-base-html 1.6.2-1 (using .../r-base-html_1.6.2-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement r-base-html ...
Preparing to replace r-base-latex 1.6.2-1 (using .../r-base-latex_1.6.2-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement r-base-latex ...
Preparing to replace r-base 1.6.2-1 (using .../r-base_1.6.2-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement r-base ...
Preparing to replace r-base-dev 1.6.2-1 (using .../r-base-dev_1.6.2-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement r-base-dev ...
Preparing to replace r-doc-html 1.6.2-1 (using .../r-doc-html_1.6.2-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement r-doc-html ...
Preparing to replace r-recommended 1.6.2-1 (using .../r-recommended_1.6.2-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement r-recommended ...
Setting up r-base-core (1.6.2-1) ...
Setting up r-base-html (1.6.2-1) ...
Setting up r-base-latex (1.6.2-1) ...
Setting up r-base (1.6.2-1) ...
Setting up r-base-dev (1.6.2-1) ...
Setting up r-doc-html (1.6.2-1) ...
Setting up r-recommended (1.6.2-1) ...
yod:~# apt-get dist-upgrade -u -s | less
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following packages have been kept back
cupsys fortunes-fr xine-ui
The following packages will be upgraded
r-base r-base-core r-base-dev r-base-html r-base-latex r-doc-html
r-recommended # Aaaaargh ! You've just did it, dumpkopf !
7 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Inst r-base-core (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Inst r-base-html (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Inst r-base-latex (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Inst r-base (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Inst r-base-dev (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Inst r-doc-html (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Inst r-recommended (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-base-core (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-base-html (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-base-latex (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-base (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-base-dev (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-doc-html (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
Conf r-recommended (1.6.2-1 CRAN:3.0/stable)
yod:~#
dselect exhibits similar behaviour.
/etc/apt/apt.conf :
APT::Default-Release "stable";
DPkg
{
Options {"--force-overwrite";"--force-downgrade";}
}
APT::Cache-Limit "16777216";
This might also be a bug related to libc6 or libstdc++, bu I did not (yet)
have reason to suspect these packages. I checked that this is *not* related to
bug #169077 (library name problem with libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2).
Perusing the docs (apt-get, dpkg, dselect) didn't lead me to a possible
solution. I'm stuck solid, and can't think of a solution short of reinstalling.
I might have also filed this bug as critical, since my system seems now not
updatable (at least not without a lot of manual, undocumented work).
Sincerely,
Emmanuel Charpentier
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux yod 2.4.20 #1 Thu Dec 26 12:48:34 CET 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.1-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-15 The GNU stdc++ library
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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:55:08 -0700 (MST)
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#176643: apt (and dselect) not updating the installed and/or
available lists
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On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
> >CRAN is your own archive with hand compiled .debs that you didn't change
> >the version number on?
> Nope. CRAN is the Comprehensive R Archive Network, a ropository for R
> and R packages. Here, Dirk Ehrenbuel (? quoting from the top of my
> mind), which is the Debian maintainer of the R packages, maintains .debs
> of the newer R versions.
Mm, same difference to me. The stuff at CRAN bears the same version number
as the stuff in the debian archive, but it has been recompiled, so it
appears to be different.
However this happened, it is not well supported. If you install the
version from the debian archive it might stop happening, if you remove the
debian archive or cran from your sources.list it will definately stop.
Jason
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