Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.6.1-1 On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 12:16:35AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 08:04:38AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 01:24:37PM -0400, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > was heard to say: > > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 07:20:09AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > > Do you still get this with 0.4.6.1-1? > > > Hi Daniel, > > > > In an utterly-unrelated note, I just did a dist-upgrade that pulled in > > > libncurses5 from unstable (due to qemu upgrade from old unstable to > > > current unstable). It caused libncurses5-dev to be removed. I went > > > to reinstall it (aptitude install libncurses5-dev) and said "no" to > > > the first handful of dep resolver questions which wanted to downgrade > > > libncurses5. Said yes when it would have installed -dev from unstable > > > (I have Default-Release "stable";). However it didn't actually > > > install it even though it continued doings things for a bit.. I had > > > to do aptitude install libncurses5-dev/unstable. > > > > Odd. I'd need more data to reproduce this, though; you can run > > aptitude-create-state-bundle(1) when stuff like this happens to capture > > a snapshot of your apt system for analysis. > Okay. I think I've since seen it happen a small handful of times. > IIRC it didn't bring up the 2nd screen of "will be upgraded", "will be > installed", "will be auto. installed"... but just went right to the > "tag database", "package lists", ... thing then ended. Just saw this again; a-c-s-b is saved let me know how you want it delivered (37MB).
|$ sudo aptitude install libncurses5-dev |The following packages are BROKEN: | libncurses5-dev |0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. |Need to get 1426kB of archives. After unpacking 6537kB will be used. |The following packages have unmet dependencies: | libncurses5-dev: Depends: libncurses5 (= 5.5-5) but 5.6+20070908-1 is installed. |Resolving dependencies... |The following actions will resolve these dependencies: | |Remove the following packages: |kvm |qemu | |Downgrade the following packages: |libncurses5 [5.6+20070908-1 (unstable, unstable, testing, now) -> 5.5-5 (stable, |stable)] | |Score is 158 | |Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] r libncurses5 5.5-5 |Rejecting the installation of libncurses5 version 5.5-5 (stable, stable) |Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n |Resolving dependencies... |The following actions will resolve these dependencies: | |Install the following packages: |libncurses5-dev [5.6+20070908-1 (unstable, unstable, testing)] | |Score is -9920 |Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] Y |No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. |0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. |Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. |Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] |Writing extended state information... Done |Reading package lists... Done |Building dependency tree |Reading state information... Done |Reading extended state information |Initializing package states... Done |Reading task descriptions... Done |Building tag database... Done |$ echo $? |0 |$ sudo aptitude install libncurses5-dev/unstable |Reading package lists... Done |Building dependency tree |Reading state information... Done |Reading extended state information |Initializing package states... Done |Reading task descriptions... Done |Building tag database... Done |The following NEW packages will be installed: | libncurses5-dev |0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. |Need to get 1508kB of archives. After unpacking 6820kB will be used. |Writing extended state information... Done |Get:1 http://distro.ibiblio.org unstable/main libncurses5-dev 5.6+20070908-1 [1508kB] [...] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
