On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 03:11:20AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 11:24:09AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> 
> > After succesfull `apt-get dist-upgrade` knows apt-get that the dist
> > upgrade was done, but aptitude still wants to install exim
> > and some other packages.
    <snip/> 
> You don't happen to have greylistd installed on your system, do you?

 # dpkg --get-selections | grep list

 # dpkg --get-selections | grep grey


No, greylistd is not installed.


> The most likely explanation for this is that aptitude is trying to satisfy a
> Recommends: for some package already installed on the system, and believes
> that installing exim4 is the only way to do this.  You might also try
> running aptitude --without-recommends dist-upgrade, to see if the problem
> goes away.

 # aptitude --without-recommends dist-upgrade
 Reading Package Lists... Done
 Building Dependency Tree
 Reading extended state information
 Initializing package states... Done
 Reading task descriptions... Done
 The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
   python2.3-iconvcodec
 The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
   postfix
 The following NEW packages will be installed:
   at exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light mdetect read-edid
 The following packages will be REMOVED:
   postfix
 0 packages upgraded, 7 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
 Need to get 1494kB of archives. After unpacking 1416kB will be used.
 Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
 Abort.


Nope,  "without recommends" is not a workaround.


Cheers
Geert Stappers

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