package dpkg tags 526774 - moreinfo unreproducible found 526774 1.15.4 thanks
As APT with 0.7.24 now also include some experimental options to make more aggressive use of the dpkg triggers you can now reproduce it also with APT. (it avoids the problem by running dpkg --triggers-only --pending all the time but i added that more as workaround than as a proper solution (see apt.conf (5) for details)) The "problem" is: "Packages in `triggers-awaited' do not satisfy Depends dependencies." (/usr/share/doc/dpkg/triggers.txt.gz - Details - triggering package) [I suspect this also applies to Pre-Depends.] --configure currently handles that as it run the triggers of the dependencies before configuring the package itself, but --unpack doesn't do that for the Pre-Depends of the package. A simple transcript how to reproduce it with diff and diffutils: (but as Eugene V. Lyubimkin already said you can reproduce it with any master-pre-depends-on-slave combination.) r...@dsklap:/var/cache/apt/archives# export PS1="root# " root# export LANG=C root# dpkg --audit root# dpkg -l dpkg diff diffutils ii diff 1:2.8.1-17 dummy transitional package for diff -> diffutils ii diffutils 1:2.8.1-17 File comparison utilities ii dpkg 1.15.4 Debian package management system root# root# dpkg --unpack --no-triggers diffutils_1%3a2.8.1-18_i386.deb (Reading database ... 321105 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace diffutils 1:2.8.1-17 (using diffutils_1%3a2.8.1-18_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement diffutils ... root# root# dpkg --configure diffutils Setting up diffutils (1:2.8.1-18) ... root# root# dpkg -l dpkg diff diffutils ii diff 1:2.8.1-17 dummy transitional package for diff -> diffutils iW diffutils 1:2.8.1-18 File comparison utilities ii dpkg 1.15.4 Debian package management system root# root# dpkg --audit The following packages are awaiting processing of triggers that they have activated in other packages. This processing can be requested using dselect or dpkg --configure --pending (or dpkg --triggers-only): diffutils File comparison utilities The following packages have been triggered, but the trigger processing has not yet been done. Trigger processing can be requested using dselect or dpkg --configure --pending (or dpkg --triggers-only): man-db on-line manual pager root# root# dpkg --unpack diff_1%3a2.8.1-18_all.deb dpkg: regarding diff_1%3a2.8.1-18_all.deb containing diff, pre-dependency problem: diff pre-depends on diffutils diffutils is unpacked, but has never been configured. dpkg: error processing diff_1%3a2.8.1-18_all.deb (--unpack): pre-dependency problem - not installing diff Errors were encountered while processing: diff_1%3a2.8.1-18_all.deb (Note that APT would add --no-triggers to all these calls as suggested in triggers.txt, but as only the first call needs the flag to setup the problem-condition i have omitted the flag for the rest of the calls.) Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen, David "DonKult" Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
