Package: base-config
Version: 2.35
Severity: normal
'apt-get install foo bar' only succeeds if foo and bar are both
available; if bar is missing, it doesn't install foo.
At the moment, read-edid only exists on i386.
The combination of these two facts means that
base-config/lib/menu/pkgsel never installs mdetect on non-i386
architectures. It should install the two separately so that it can cope
with either one being missing.
Here's an untested (sorry) patch:
Index: lib/menu/pkgsel
===================================================================
--- lib/menu/pkgsel (revision 1139)
+++ lib/menu/pkgsel (working copy)
@@ -31,12 +31,11 @@
# aptitude and installs using aptitude, they will be available.
for pkg in mdetect read-edid ; do
if ! dpkg --get-selections | grep "$pkg" | grep -q install; then
- extra="$pkg $extra"
+ if apt-get -y -f install "$pkg" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+ extra="$pkg $extra"
+ fi
fi
done
- if [ "$extra" ] ; then
- apt-get -y -f install $extra >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
- fi
if which tasksel >/dev/null 2>&1; then
if [ "$1" = new ]; then
By the way, why the redirection of useful information to /dev/null? It
would have been easier to find this problem if the output had been
visible. I guess the error messages about read-edid not being available
might confuse some people or something.
Thanks,
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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