At Thu, 04 Nov 2004 06:40:08 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > At Wed, 03 Nov 2004 15:22:13 -0700, > Justin Guerin wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 03 November 2004 01:02, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > For some reason aptitude constently (every apgrade) tried to replace my > > > vim-gtk with vim-tcl and ftpd with pure-ftpd, any ideas why? > > > > > > I don't have any pinning setup. > > > > I would guess that you have some packages installed that recommend or > > suggest vim-tcl or pure-ftpd, and there's possibly an aptitude setting that > > asks aptitude to install suggested or recommended packages. Since vim-tcl > > replaces vim-gtk, aptitude would want to install vim-tcl and remove > > vim-gtk. However, if vim-gtk was not installed automatically, then it > > shouldn't be trying to do this. One reason it might try, however, is > > because vim-tcl provides something that vim-gtk doesn't. If the version of > > both that aptitude is dealing with don't both provide gvim, then there's a > > package bug in there somewhere. > > > > If you want to track this down, look at the reverse depends on vim-tcl, > > until you come to a package you installed. Perhaps it is the culprit. > > > > Did that, nothing depends on vim-tcl. > > I am trying to look a bit further into this and I am getting a very strange > behaviour. Each time I press g (upgrade/download/install) there is a different > set of packages it wants to install that has nothing to do with anything I > selected. This is just on the one system. My other computer is fine. > > There seems to be simething really fucked up with my aptitude installation for > some reason. I installed it using dpkg --set-selections and then dselect, and > from then curses interface I chose install. That seemed to have completely > messed things up for aptitude. >
just did an apt-get dselect-upgrade and that fixed things. I guess that dselect messed things up for aptitude somehow in a way that only apt-get knew how to fix ... > > Justin Guerin > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
