Package: piuparts Version: 0.38 Severity: normal Hi,
piuparts uses the order of the packages in the changes file to install/upgrade them via dpkg. This may not be the correct install/upgrade path because dependency resolution in apt-get would reorder the packages. Wrong unpack order by dpkg can actually break package installation/upgrade. Also when removing the packages, this is done in an arbitrary order with dpkg. As a workaround for install/upgrade I can now list the debs manually in a better order than passing them as a changes file. Suggestions: add an option to install/remove the packages via apt-get instead of dpkg. Therefore put all the deps into e.g. /tmp/debs, run dpkg-scanpackages there and add "deb file:///tmp/debs ./" to sources.list. (Eventually sign the packages file? Or set appropriate unsigned apt flags.) Then when installing the packages, pass them with an explicit version: apt-get install foo=1.2-3 bar=0.8.15 so that no other version than the debs that were provided gets installed. This way would also solve handling Pre-Depends properly. (Assuming the debs in the package repository have different versions than the debs passed on the command line ...) When removing, pass them all to one apt-get remove command. The purging afterwards can be done done via dpkg individually. Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers stable APT policy: (800, 'stable'), (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (130, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages piuparts depends on: ii apt 0.7.25.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii debootstrap 1.0.23 Bootstrap a basic Debian system ii lsb-release 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base version report ii lsof 4.81.dfsg.1-1 List open files ii python 2.6.5-5 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-debian 0.1.16 Python modules to work with Debian piuparts recommends no packages. piuparts suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
