Hi guys,
Using sarge.
I have a silly apt-get/aptitude question for you. I have a script that
sets up a big long command line of packages that I want added to the
system. In this command line, I specify that I want the lpr package
removed, and the cupsys-bsd package installed (the two are mutually
exclusive -- lpr conflicts w/ cupsys-bsd). Now, you would think that
apt-get and/or aptitude would be smart enough to understand this, but
apparently it's not:
(The packages named tiem-* are custom packages for our site.)
aptitude -y -o Aptitude::Log=/var/lib/tiem/log-20060901-120519.txt
install kernel-image-2.6-686-smp+
kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686-smp+
tiem-adduser-debconf-cfg+
tiem-dictionaries-common-debconf-cfg+
tiem-console-data-debconf-cfg+
tiem-dash-debconf-cfg+
tiem-discover1-debconf-cfg+
tiem-exim4-debconf-cfg+
tiem-hotplug-debconf-cfg+
tiem-locales-debconf-cfg+
tiem-man-db-debconf-cfg+
tiem-netkit-inetd-debconf-cfg+
tiem-portmap-debconf-cfg+
tiem-ssh-debconf-cfg+
portmap+
tiem-tcpd-cfg+
tiem-sysvinit-cfg+
tiem-sysklogd-cfg+
tiem-ssh-cfg+
tiem-grub-cfg+
tiem-nis-client-cfg+
tiem-nfs-kernel-server-cfg+
tiem-cron-cfg+
tiem-autofs-cfg+
tcpdump+
ntpdate+
ntp+
ntp-simple+
ntp-server+
nfs-kernel-server+
tiem-shells-common-cfg+
tiem-bash-cfg+
tiem-dash-cfg+
tiem-tcsh-cfg+
tiem-zsh-cfg+
tiem-shells-cfg+
tiem-skel-cfg+
tiem-root-home-cfg+
csh+
tcsh+
zsh+
apt-rdepends+
apt-utils+
apticron+
debconf-utils+
alien+
fakeroot+
devscripts+
bar+
rsync+
mc+
screen+
unzip+
rsync+
arj+
unzoo+
unrar+
lha+
zip+
openssl+
xbase-clients+
xterm+
vim-common+
vim+
vimpart+
vim-gtk+
r-base+
r-base-core+
r-base-dev+
r-base-html+
r-base-latex+
r-cran-gtkdevice+
r-doc-html+
r-doc-pdf+
r-gnome+
r-mathlib+
r-recommended+
r-cran-odesolve+
r-cran-triangle+
r-cran-lhs+
icaclient+
graphviz+
gnuplot+
libgsl0+
libgsl0-dev+
gsl-bin+
gsl-doc-pdf+
gsl-ref-html+
libgdal1+
libgdal1-dev+
gdal-bin+
proj+
shapelib+
netcdfg3+
netcdfg-dev+
netcdf-bin+
netcdf-doc+
libshp-dev+
grass+
grass-doc+
mathematica-5.2-fonts+
pvwave-8.01+
pvwave-8.01-license+
tiem-usb-cfg+
tiem-hal-cfg+
tiem-cdrecord-cfg+
mt-st+
gphoto2+
libcdk4+
gthumb+
gtkam+
libexif-gtk4+
lame+
liblame0+
liblame0-dev+
sox+
vorbis-tools+
gxmms+
xmms-cdread+
xmms-arts+
mp3gain+
libavifile-0.7c102+
libdvdcss2+
libfame0+
lsdvd+
mjpegtools+
transcode+
tovid+
realplayer+
libavc1394-0+
libdv4+
libdv-bin+
libquicktime1+
ffmpeg+
mplayer+
kino+
kinoplus+
kino-timfx+
kino-dvtitler+
vlc+
vlc-plugin-arts+
vlc-plugin-esd+
vlc-plugin-sdl+
vlc-plugin-svgalib+
wxvlc+
gnome-vlc+
libvlc0-dev+
mozilla-plugin-vlc_
ogle+
ogle-gui+
okle+
libpng12-0+
libpng12-dev+
libjpeg-progs+
libjpeg62+
libjpeg62-dev+
libao2+
libimlib2+
imagemagick+
sane-utils+
quiteinsane+
gimp2.0-quiteinsane+
imagemagick+
gimp+
gimp-data-extras+
gimp-dcraw+
gimp-dimage-color+
gimp-gap+
gimp-help-common+
gimp-help-en+
gimp-helpbrowser+
gimp-python+
gimp-svg+
gimp-texturize+
xfig+
transfig+
mkisofs+
k3b+
xcdroast+
vcdtools+
vcdimager+
cdrecord+
cdrdao+
cdda2wav+
dvdauthor+
dvd+rw-tools+
dvdbackup+
dvdrtools+
cdparanoia+
grip+
kaffe-pthreads_
kaffe_
gjdoc_
antlr_
sun-java5+
ddd+
autoconf-doc+
autoconf+
autoconf-archive+
automake1.4+
autotools-dev+
autobook+
gnu-standards+
doxygen+
autodia+
libdigest-sha1-perl+
perl-doc+
libxaw6-dev_
libxaw7-dev+
libgnome-dev+
libstdc++2.10-dev+
libboost-date-time-dev+
libboost-dbg+
libboost-dev+
libboost-doc+
libboost-filesystem-dev+
libboost-graph-dev+
libboost-program-options-dev+
libboost-regex-dev+
libboost-serialization-dev+
libboost-signals-dev+
libboost-test-dev+
libboost-thread-dev+
tiem-apache2-common-cfg+
tiem-apache2-workstation-cfg+
tiem-apache2-cfg+
tiem-exim4-common-cfg+
tiem-exim4-workstation-cfg+
tiem-exim4-cfg+
tiem-courier-cfg+
tiem-squirrelmail-common-cfg+
tiem-squirrelmail-workstation-cfg+
tiem-squirrelmail-cfg+
tiem-mutt-cfg+
mb2md+
lpr_
cupsys-bsd+
tiem-cups-cfg+
limewire+
azureus+
curl+
mozilla-firefox+
mozilla-thunderbird+
flashplugin-nonfree+
apollon_
bittornado_
bittornado-gui_
giftcurs_
giftui_
gift_
xblank+
xmonitors+
xterm+
xfonts-base+
xfonts-100dpi+
xfonts-75dpi+
xfonts-scalable+
xserver-common+
xserver-xfree86+
menu+
kde+
kdm+
koffice_
libx11-dev+
libxext-dev+
libxi-dev+
xlibs-static-dev+
x-dev+
libxv-dev+
xlibs-dev+
xspecs+
gnome+
fvwm+
fvwm-icons+
wm-icons+
emacs21+
emacs21-bin-common+
openoffice.org+
openoffice.org-help-en+
openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us+
openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us+
openoffice.org-mimelnk+
openoffice.org-gtk-gnome+
openoffice.org-kde+
myspell-en-us+
ooqstart-gnome+
oooqs-kde+
tetex-base+
tetex-bin+
tetex-extra+
tetex-doc+
fig2ps+
psutils+
nvidia-glx+
nvidia-kernel-builder+
tiem-logitech-mx-500-cfg+
^MReading Package Lists... 0%^M^MReading Package Lists...
100%^M^MReading Package
Lists... Done^M
^MBuilding Dependency Tree... 0%^M^MBuilding Dependency Tree...
0%^M^MBuilding De
pendency Tree... 50%^M^MBuilding Dependency Tree... 50%^M^MBuilding
Dependency Tr
ee ^M
^MReading extended state information... 0%^M^MReading extended state
information.
.. 0%^M^MReading extended state information ^M
^MInitializing package states... 0% ^M^MInitializing package states...
Done^M
^MReading task descriptions... 0% ^M^MReading task descriptions...
2%^M^MReadi
ng task descriptions... Done^M
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies, some packages cannot be installed
E: Unable to resolve some dependencies!
Some packages had unmet dependencies. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
tiem-cups-cfg: PreDepends: cupsys-bsd but it is not installable
ERROR: update-tiem returned non-zero exit code
Notice that "lpr_" and "cupsys-bsd+" are both in the list.
Now, if I call aptitude with ONLY "lpr_" and "cupsys-bsd+" on the
command line, it works:
# aptitude install lpr_ cupsys-bsd+
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
cupsys-client libcupsys2-gnutls10
The following packages have been kept back:
portmap
The following NEW packages will be installed:
cupsys-bsd cupsys-client libcupsys2-gnutls10
The following packages will be REMOVED:
lpr
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 234kB of archives. After unpacking 233kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
What gives? Does anybody understand why aptitude is behaving this way?
And apt-get does the exact same thing too.
Michael Peek
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