I've seen this problem come up from time to time before, but now I have it on a large scale:
# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libdirectfb-0.9-24 The following packages will be upgraded: afio alsa-oss anacron aptitude arping bc bmon cabextract cramfsprogs cvs dialog diff digikam digikamimageplugins dirmngr discover dosfstools echoping ed fdutils firefox ftp gettext gettext-base gnome-bin gnupg-agent gnupg2 gpart gpgsm gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-x gstreamer0.8-mad gstreamer0.8-misc gstreamer0.8-oss gstreamer0.8-vorbis gtk-engines-industrial gtk-engines-qtpixmap gtk-engines-thinice gtk-theme-switch gtk2-engines-gtk-qt hal hspell html2text ifupdown iptables k9copy kchmviewer kile kipi-plugins klinkstatus knights ksensors libart-2.0-2 libartsc0-dev libaudiofile0 libavc1394-0 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libcap1 libdbus-glib-1-2 libdbus-qt-1-1c2 libdigest-sha1-perl libdiscover2 libdvdread3 libedit2 libgcrypt11 libgdbm3 libgii0 libgii0-target-x libgnokii2 libgnome32 libgnomeui32 libgpg-error-dev libgpg-error0 libgsm1 libgstreamer-gconf0.8-0 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 libgstreamer-plugins0.8-0 libgstreamer0.10-0 libgstreamer0.8-0 libgtk1.2 libidl0 libieee1284-3 libimlib2 libjasper-1.701-1 libjpeg62-dev libkexif1 libkipi0 libkrb5-dev liblocale-gettext-perl libmad0 libmad0-dev libmeanwhile1 libmodplug0c2 libnet1 libnss-db libopencdk8 liborbit0 liborbit2 libpcap0.7 libpopt-dev libpopt0 libpth2 libqt3-mt libquicktime0 libraw1394-5 libselinux1 libshout3 libsqlite0 libswfdec0.3 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl lockfile-progs lynx mailx mathopd mawk mplayer-nogui mt-st ncompress nvi ocaml orpie pinentry-qt pppoe python2.3-qt3 python2.3-sip4-qt3 qt3-dev-tools screen sgt-puzzles shared-mime-info sharutils spamc tcptraceroute telnet time util-linux vsftpd w3m wget xchm xinetd 142 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/69.1MB of archives. After unpacking 1573kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Extracting templates from packages: 100% Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 112239 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace diff 2.8.1-11 (using .../diff_2.8.1-11_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement diff ... Setting up diff (2.8.1-11) ... (Reading database ... 112239 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace util-linux 2.12r-8 (using .../util-linux_2.12r-8_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement util-linux ... Setting up util-linux (2.12r-8) ... (Reading database ... 112239 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-1 (using .../liblocale-gettext-perl_1.05-1_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement liblocale-gettext-perl ... Preparing to replace mawk 1.3.3-11 (using .../mawk_1.3.3-11_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement mawk ... Preparing to replace libgtk1.2 1.2.10-18 (using .../libgtk1.2_1.2.10-18_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libgtk1.2 ... Preparing to replace libsqlite0 2.8.16-1 (using .../libsqlite0_2.8.16-1_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libsqlite0 ... Preparing to replace screen 4.0.2-4.1 (using .../screen_4.0.2-4.1_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement screen ... Preparing to replace libselinux1 1.30-1 (using .../libselinux1_1.30-1_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libselinux1 ... ... and so on. You get the picture. Every time I run apt-get dist-upgrade, the same set of packages gets reinstalled. I've been monkeying around with my sources.list file; it doesn't seem that that should matter, but maybe it does. Thanks, Andrew. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
