Hello, 2010/6/28 Julien Cristau <[email protected]>: > ever since etch or so, Xorg upgrades have been a bit of a pain as > apt/aptitude decide to uninstall driver packages instead of upgrading > them.
( If you want to be sure that aptitude is in the loop you want to write to [email protected] too, but we are talking here based on the great upgrade test from Petter Reinholdtsen "just" about the current behavior of APT, doesn't we? ) I haven't found the real cause for this problem, but for the time being you can add to the xserver-xorg-video-all package the following line: >>>>> Breaks: xserver-xorg-video-cyrix, xserver-xorg-video-dummy, xserver-xorg-video-glint, xserver-xorg-video-i810, xserver-xorg-video-imstt, xserver-xorg-video-nsc, xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd, xserver-xorg-video-tga, xserver-xorg-video-v4l, xserver-xorg-video-vga, xserver-xorg-video-via <<<<< (a list of all packages xserver-xorg-video-all depended on in lenny but no longer in squeeze). You might want to add versions to these breaks, also a different package is maybe a better fit for this breaks line, but at least in my test this caused the xorg upgrade problem to disappear. > The current situation looks like this: > > Package: xserver-xorg > Depends: xserver-xorg-core, xserver-xorg-video-all | xserver-xorg-video-${abi} > > Package: xserver-xorg-core > Depends: xserver-xorg > Conflicts: xserver-xorg-video-${oldabi} > > Package: xserver-xorg-video-foo > Provides: xserver-xorg-video-${abi} > Depends: xserver-xorg-core The conflicts is a breaks in current unstable, isn't it? Packages like x11-common seems to have a lot of conflicts. Are all of them - not only in this specific package - really needed or would be Breaks enough? (see also the fresh policy version 3.9.0) Also, xserver-xorg and xserver-xorg-core forming a dependency loop in your snippet. > For squeeze I'm trying to get to something like this: > > Package: xserver-xorg > Depends: xserver-xorg-core, xserver-xorg-video-all | xorg-driver-video > > Package: xserver-xorg-core > Provides: xorg-video-abi-${abi} > > Package: xserver-xorg-video-foo > Depends: xorg-video-abi-${abi} > Provides: xorg-driver-video Looks much better on first glance. :) But why the Depends on xserver-xorg-video-all ? I assume that all packages xserver-xorg-video-all depends on will provide xorg-driver-video so you depend on (A & B & …) | (A | B | …). While apt currently chooses always the first option at first if it needs to install something it is not guaranteed that it will do this forever or that any other $packagemanager will always choose the A & B & … path Best regards, David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
