<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Colin Watson wrote: >> csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >From a tip given somewhere on this list, I typed: >> > >> ># apt-get dist-upgrade -s >> > >> >And lo and behold came the following output: >> [...] >> >Inst diff [shellutils on hurd] >> [...] >> >What does the "shellutils on hurd" mean? >> >> The shellutils package depends on 'login | hurd',
My mistake; I should have said pre-depends. apt wouldn't comment on ordinary dependencies. 'dpkg -p shellutils' has the details. >> since on the hurd-i386 architecture the hurd package provides the >> functionality of the login package on other architectures. I think >> apt is just giving you an informational notice that there's an >> unsatisfied dependency on hurd, but, since (a) it can't install that >> package and (b) it doesn't matter anyway as login will do, it doesn't >> do anything about it. > >Actually, I think it's just a minor bug in apt-get. Why do you think it's a bug? Looking at the source code (apt-0.3.19/apt-pkg/algorithms.cc, line 66), it seems pretty clear - the code notes the existence of pre-dependencies (which it can be useful to know about in simulation mode), and will then die if there are any conflicts that would get in their way. Maybe I was confusing when I mentioned dependencies instead. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
