On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:41:09AM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: > After getting sid successfully installed, I ran dselect to install the > rest of the packages I wanted. There are a few complaints about > recomended packages not being available, but the only real headake was > with olvwm. Apparently, it requires xlib and recomends xpm4g, and > xpm4g conflicts with xlib.
That's weird. xpm4g should indeed be forced out by something or other, because it's obsolete with the new organization of the X packages. However, olvwm just depends on libc6 and xlibs, and doesn't recommend xpm4g. Are you sure that's the problem? What *could* be the case is that you ran 'apt-get update', but not 'dselect update' (or [U]pdate from dselect's main menu). If you try to run dselect on a system that's been upgraded to sid without updating its view of available packages past potato, it will understandably get rather confused. See the recent thread about the division between dpkg/dselect and apt for more information. > 3. report a bug in dselect -- it shouldn't treat "recomends" as > "requires" if it makes packages uninstallable. dselect's treatment of recommends is certainly a known bug. :) It'll be fixed in version 1.10, but I don't believe that's going to be released until after woody freezes. If you want a preview and are brave, you can check it out of CVS. See http://cvs.debian.org/ for instructions: project root dpkg, module dpkg. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
