Andrew Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> You have two builds of the same package/version. Apt-get wants to
>> install one of them but your cache already contains the other one. So
>> every upgrade reinstalls the wrong one.
>
> Well I don't understand that; and if it's true it seems to still be a bug.
> We still have the behavior that apt-get is trying to reinstall the same
> packages over and over again with the same versions as are currently
> installed. Why do those package files have the same package name and
> version number, if they're really different? But maybe that's not
> apt-get's fault; I don't know enough about it to know.
For example because you did rebuild a package localy with the same
version. Or like amd64 now the official repository is a rebuild of the
same versions the unofficial archive has.
> Anyway if an occasional 'apt-get clean' is all that's needed to work around
> the problem, I can live with that. However...
>
>> apt-get clean; apt-get upgrade
>
> No, this does not fix the problem. apt-get still wants to reinstall all of
> the same packages.
Once or more than once?
MfG
Goswin
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