Bug#310490: A Prisonner of the dependency hell

2005-05-31 Thread astronut
Cool. Can a D.D. set the appropriate tags on the bug? Thanks, Astronut On 5/31/05, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 31 May 2005 04:35, astronut wrote: > > Now to figure out how to get it to automaticall resolve this without > > manual user intervention. > > See this [1] message

Bug#310490: A Prisonner of the dependency hell

2005-05-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 04:35, astronut wrote: > Now to figure out how to get it to automaticall resolve this without > manual user intervention. See this [1] message for a proposed text in the release notes to deal with this issue. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing/2005/05/msg00310.html

Bug#310490: A Prisonner of the dependency hell

2005-05-30 Thread astronut
Now to figure out how to get it to automaticall resolve this without manual user intervention. On 5/30/05, Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This one time, at band camp, astronut said: > > OK, her'es the log. We're down to 40 packages removed, and I can > > believe that as being proper for

Bug#310490: A Prisonner of the dependency hell

2005-05-30 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, astronut said: > OK, her'es the log. We're down to 40 packages removed, and I can > believe that as being proper for woody -> sarge, but I'm not the > proper one to judge that. [ snip ] > The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: > autoconf2.13 libdigest

Bug#310490: A Prisonner of the dependency hell

2005-05-30 Thread astronut
OK, her'es the log. We're down to 40 packages removed, and I can believe that as being proper for woody -> sarge, but I'm not the proper one to judge that. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ head -n 20 screenlog.1 debian-test:~# perl -pi -e 's/stable/sarge/' /etc/apt/sources.list debian-test:~# aptitude inst

Bug#310490: A Prisonner of the dependency hell

2005-05-30 Thread astronut
Ok, as both of you suggested, I tried this. It is much more successful. First pass installs like 50 packages, drops 5. The upgrade only removes 35 packages. Unfortunately I forgot to log, and it scrolled past and pageup is using the wrong buffer. I will redo to get a log of this transaction.

Bug#310490: A Prisonner of the dependency hell

2005-05-30 Thread astronut
Yes, it's the same list as higher in the bug report thread. I am just hitting "revert" on vmware. On 5/30/05, Andrew Donnellan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it the same list of packages? If not, send in the new lists. (I > prefer the output of ' dpkg-query -W > --showformat="${Package},${Version

Bug#310490: A Prisonner of the dependency hell

2005-05-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 00:51, astronut wrote: > I attempted this on the full system (vmware), as opposed to the > smaller test case and had 126 packages slated for removal. Complete > log of session below. As before, it's a vmware box, and I have > multiple copies so one click reverts it back and f

Bug#310490: A Prisonner of the dependency hell

2005-05-30 Thread Andrew Donnellan
Is it the same list of packages? If not, send in the new lists. (I prefer the output of ' dpkg-query -W --showformat="${Package},${Version}" '). Andrew On 5/31/05, astronut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/28/05, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So, this works: > > > > aptitude

Bug#310490: A Prisonner of the dependency hell

2005-05-30 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 06:51:00PM -0400, astronut wrote: > On 5/28/05, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So, this works: > > > > aptitude markauto libqt3 > > perl -pi -e's/stable/sarge/' /etc/apt/sources.list > > apt-get update > > aptitude dist-upgrade > > > Except it doesn't.

Bug#310490: A Prisonner of the dependency hell

2005-05-30 Thread astronut
On 5/28/05, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, this works: > > aptitude markauto libqt3 > perl -pi -e's/stable/sarge/' /etc/apt/sources.list > apt-get update > aptitude dist-upgrade Except it doesn't. I attempted this on the full system (vmware), as opposed to the smaller test c

Bug#310490: A Prisonner of the dependency hell

2005-05-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 09:47:31PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 04:49:14PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > I don't suppose there's a smaller test case involving fewer packages? > After spending a dozen of hour tracking it, I have the obvious headache, > but

Bug#310490: A Prisonner of the dependency hell

2005-05-28 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 04:49:14PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Bill, > > I don't suppose there's a smaller test case involving fewer packages? After spending a dozen of hour tracking it, I have the obvious headache, but also the following: 1) debootstrap woody 2) Install the following pac