I have two questions:
1) has something changed in the way dselect/dpkg installs packages.
In the past, dpkg used to choose the best order to install packages so
as to avoid dependancy problems. Now, when installing packages with
dselect, this is not done. For example, I recently installed emacs
from and emacs-el was attempted before emacs. dpkg complained that
emacs must be installed before emacs-el. Is there a fix to this?
2) recently a number of packages have been having trouble getting
installed. svgalib and zlib are 2 examples. The problem is this:
dselect recognizes that there are new versions availble and they get
downloaded. Then dpkg (i presume) complains that the downloaded
packages are older than the currently installed set. However, in they
are not. manually installing them with dpkg -i works. I believe this
has something to do with the : in available and status version
numbers.
I have the most recent versions of utilities (dpkg, etc.) from
unstable.
Thanks,
Erv
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