On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, James Dietrich wrote: > > I use the apt method in dselect. > > I have had the NMUs of several X packages (-8.1) on > hold for a long time and after selecting install in > dselect, it listed those five packages as having been > held back. > > After seeing the message this morning about a possible > problem with locales 2.0.7-19981211-1 I also put libc6, > locales, timezones, libc6-dev, glibc-doc, and libc6-dev > on hold pending further information. > > However, apt still shows those same five X packages > as being the only ones on hold: > Updating package status cache...done > Checking system integrity...ok > The following packages have been kept back > xbase xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable xfonts-base > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. > > Why doesn't it show libc6 and friends as well? I'd like > to make sure I'm not overlooking something obvious.
The reason is that libc6 has a recommends for timezone, not timezones (presumably it's just a typo) and this causes a conflict since timezone cannot be found in the package list (there are bug reports filed against libc6 for this). Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
