on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 06:05:16PM +0000, Jonathan Matthews ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all. > > Just wondering if anyone knows why the following's happening: > > > # apt-get -f dist-upgrade > The following packages will be REMOVED: > console-tools gdm gnome-control-center gnome-gturing groff gs gv libguile6 > locales man-db task-gnome-apps task-gnome-desktop task-gnome-games > task-gnome-net task-x-window-system-core xbase-clients xf86setup > xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-cjk xfonts-cyrillic > xfonts-scalable xlib6g-dev xmanpages xpm4g > The following NEW packages will be installed: > cpp-2.95 defoma g++-2.95 gcc-2.95 gconf gnome-gnotski gnome-mime-data > groff-base host ifupdown ipchains klogd libast1 libbonobo2 libbz2-1.0
<...>
> 261 packages upgraded, 65 newly installed, 26 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
> Need to get 135MB of archives. After unpacking 69.2MB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
> Abort.
Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly
recommend 72 as a good default.
Thank you.
> This happens after changing an up-to-date potato to point to testing,
> 'cept without the security sources.list entry.
Had you had the security line filled before?
> I'm not really sure that I want all that stuff to disappear, and it
> doesn't look like that cpio problem that was doing the rounds a while
> ago.
In general, you can prevent a package from being removed automatically
be requesting it be held. In your case:
$ cat <<EOF | dpgk --set-selections
console-tools hold
gdm hold
gnome-control-center hold
gnome-gturing hold
groff hold
gs hold
gv hold
libguile6 hold
locales hold
man-db hold
task-gnome-apps hold
task-gnome-desktop hold
task-gnome-games hold
task-gnome-net hold
task-x-window-system-core hold
xbase-clients hold
xf86setup hold
xfonts-100dpi hold
xfonts-75dpi hold
xfonts-base hold
xfonts-cjk hold
xfonts-cyrillic hold
xfonts-scalable hold
xlib6g-dev hold
xmanpages hold
xpm4g hold
EOF
...would freeze each of these packages at the current release. man dpkg
for more info.
If you wanted to spend the time finding out just which package it was
that everything was dependent on, you could try specifying holds one at
a time and re-running your apt-get line. The "-s" tag will show you
what will be done without actually doing it.
Peace.
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