Hello Daniel, On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:37:16 -0700 Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It looks like the problem is that aptitude is noticing that you have > a > pile of unresolved recommendations and fixing them for you. The weird > thing, to me, is that there are no candidates to resolve the > recommendations, which I bet is why aptitude insists on removing the > packages. When I add cupsys-bsd to the package list which I set by "dpkg --set-selections", all desired packages are installed. But I do not want do that, see below. > > Meanwhile, I changed my script a little so that aptitude does not > > have to solve the conflict between exim4 and ssmtp. But now I have a > > problem with lsb-core: It depends on lpr but no lpr-providing > > package is mentioned in my package list. The reason is that I want > > to have cupsys-bsd installed automatically (that's what aptitude > > really does after having found a solution), but replace it later > > with another lpr-package in certain situations. > > I'm not sure I follow what your problem with lsb-core is. My big package list contains the package lsb-core, but lsb-core depends from lpr. There are several packages that provide lpr (cupsys-bsd, lpr, lprng), but none of these is mentioned in my package list. The reason for omitting them is that I want to have cupsys-bsd automatically, but to replace it later with package lpr in some situations. As all installation actions are executed by a script that is called several times, adding cupsys-bsd explicitly is no option, because - on some machines - every time my installation script runs it would first install cupsys-bsd (maybe replacing lpr) and then install lpr (again). But I want cupsys-bsd to be replaced only once. Regards Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
