2013/6/10, Andrey Gursky <andrey.gur...@e-mail.ua>: > David, thanks for your detailed response! > > 2013/6/9, David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+deb...@gmail.com>: > >> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Andrey Gursky <andrey.gur...@e-mail.ua> >> wrote: >>>> P.S. Do you know who is responsible for the cvs browsing feature? >>> >>> I've noticed, you've just silently migrated to git. >> >> We migrated from bzr to git just yet. Michael didn't throw a big party, >> but he announced it to the relevant peers (aka on deity@d.l.o). >> (That the browsing didn't work was a mistake, it should work now) > > Yes, the fix of the browsing was, what I spoke about. > > >> The problem here though is less a debug problem as this can be recreated >> "easily" by having a multi-arch enabled system, an i386- and an >> amd64-only >> CD-ROM configured and an upgrade for a M-A:same library you have >> installed >> for i386 and amd64. > > I'd like to add a tag: multiarch to the bug, OK? > > >> The problem is that if APT needs to upgrade a library it has to tell dpkg >> to unpack the i386.deb and the amd64.deb at the same time, so for that to >> work it needs access to both files which it doesn't have if you switch >> CD-ROMs (aka: you need a second drive, usb sticks might work, too). >> >> >> To make it work with one drive, APT would need to copy the amd64.deb >> package >> to disk, ask you to switch, and whola, it has both files. Only problem: >> You would be going to switch a lot as you basically have to switch for >> each library you have installed both architectures (and sometimes back). >> >> So, to prevent people from going insane over switching a thousand times >> APT would need to copy all those library files at once – or at least as >> many as possible without eating all harddrive space. >> >> >> The first should be easy, the second step a bit harder, but both will not >> be fixed by me as I never used APT with CD-ROMs (nor do I use CD-ROMs at >> all >> if I think about it now…). That needs someone with more CD-ROM experience >> to pick it up as this really needs someone who can actually test what >> she/he >> is doing. I am happy to help with pointers/answers/reviews/… on the other >> hand, hence tagged as 'gift' [0]. >> >> [0] https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/GiftTag > > I also don't use the drives, but mount images as loop device [1]. I'm > wondering why I didn't encountered this bug before. I assume not to > update i386 libs I installed once. If there are no problems with > installing M-A:same libs, what are good reasons to update them only by > simultaneously unpacking, which seems to be not needed during install? > > Regards, > Andrey > > [1] (BTW there is another issue with that, I've been wanting to report > that since a while now; will do it shortly)
Hi! Could be apt at least fixed in order to give valuable infos instead of meaningless: ------------ root@debian:~# apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: gtk2-engines:i386 gtk2-engines The following packages will be upgraded: gtk2-engines:i386 gtk2-engines 2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1252 not upgraded. 9 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/780 kB of archives. After this operation, 119 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Media change: please insert the disc labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux testing _Jessie_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-1 20131223-05:46' in the drive '/media/cdrom/' and press enter Media change: please insert the disc labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux testing _Jessie_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-1 20131223-05:46' in the drive '/media/cdrom/' and press enter E: Internal Error, ordering was unable to handle the media swap root@debian:~# ---------------- Two times asked for the same DVD, then (despite of supplied properly DVD) failed and it is not clear what package it couldn't find. Thanks, Andrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
