Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.4-4
Severity: normal
Hello,
I had a machine with almost a minimal set of packages installed, one of
those packages was exim4 which had been installed automatically because
of dependencies of another package. Then, I used "dpkg --set-selections
< packagelist" to set a very large package selection list (about 1400
packages). Then, I called "aptitude -y -f install" to really install the
packages. Most of the packages could be installed successfully, but some
remained in state "install ok uninstalled" because of a strange conflict
resolution.
The core problem was that the big package list contained ssmtp, which has a
conflict with the previously installed exim4. So, aptitude tried to
solve the conflict:
The following packages are BROKEN:
exim4-config exim4-daemon-light ssmtp
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
Need to get 44.0kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
exim4-config: Conflicts: ssmtp but 2.61-11.1 is to be installed.
exim4-daemon-light: Conflicts: mail-transport-agent which is a
virtual package.
ssmtp: Conflicts: mail-transport-agent which is a virtual
package.
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Remove the following packages:
exim4
exim4-base
exim4-config
exim4-daemon-light
Keep the following packages at their current version:
gnome-desktop-environment [ not installed ]
kdewebdev [ not installed ]
lyx-common [ not installed ]
ibritish [ not installed ]
quanta-data [ not installed ]
quanta [ not installed ]
free-java-sdk [ not installed ]
sablevm [ not installed ]
gnome [ not installed ]
lyx [ not installed ]
kde [ not installed ]
policycoreutils [ not installed ]
lyx-qt [ not installed ]
I think that the conflict between exim4 and ssmtp should not have an
effect on the packages mentioned below "Keep the following packages at
their current version:".
Regards
Christoph Pleger
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Debian Release: 4.0
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
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ii libncursesw5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
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