Bug#179449: addition to: dist-upgrade doesn't upgrade anything, but wants to install new packages and remove some old ones nevertheless
Hi,
Addition to:
Debian Bug report logs - #179449
dist-upgrade doesn't upgrade anything, but wants to install new packages
and remove some old ones nevertheless
Both dist upgrades I've done eventually do this for one reason or another.
However, a message is given that you need to continue with
?? dpkg -a ... ??? Here's a snippet from my .bash_history
apt-get -f remove xbill xvier
apt-get -f -u dist-upgrade
dpkg --configure -a
apt-get -f -u dist-upgrade
At some point "dpkg --configure -a" stopped working and I had to fix
things, I had to resolve the held packages to continue the upgrade.
Eventually, for the held back packages I had to fix that too.
Anyway, maybe directions for handing the predictable stopping points
when using dist-upgrade and the predictable way to continue more
smoothly should be in APT-HOWTO. I dont' see it being there now.
------------------------------------------------------------
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gaim gaim-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
aspell aspell-bin aspell-en libapm1 libaspell15 libgnomeprint2.2-0
libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-common
libgtkspell0 xlibmesa3-glu
The following packages have been kept back
gedit gnome-applets gnome-control-center gnome-panel gnome-panel-data
gnome-session gnome-terminal libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common
libbonoboui2-0
libbonoboui2-common libeel2-2 libeel2-data libgnome2-0 libgnomeui-0
libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgsf-gnome-1 libnautilus2-2
libpanel-applet2-0 xlibmesa3 yelp
0 packages upgraded, 11 newly installed, 2 to remove and 22 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/2913kB of archives. After unpacking 5493kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
(I guess this is related to an earlier bug I filed, where apt wants to
install held packages' newer versions' dependencies, but I haven't seen it
want to remove any package for this purpose yet.)
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