I keep getting the same pattern of behavior from apt and dselect, but I can't quite figure out what's happening. Can someone explain what's going on?
I'm running Woody. When I apt-get update; apt-get install, I always get the following message: 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. where 4 is an arbitrary number corresponding to the updated packages since my last update. Next I run dselect. Without changing any package selections, it tells me that it wants to install samba-common, mkiofs, and smbfs. Here are the line in the conflict resolution section, and the relevant text for each line: *** Opt net samba-common Samba common files used by both the... *** Xtr otherosf cdrecord A command line CD/DVD writing tool ** Opt otherosf smbfs mount and umount commands for the... samba-common text: smbfs depends on samba-common (= 2.0.7-3) cdrecord text: cdrecord recommends mkisofs mkisofs does not appear to be available smbfs text: smbfs depends on samba-common (= 2.0.7-3) So what I do is type 'Q' to force dselect to accept my selections. When I do, smbfs does NOT get installed, and the 4 updates occur. My questions are: 1. Why do the unresolved dependancies prevent apt from updating other packages that have nothing to do with these? 2. Why isn't smbfs getting installed? Since the samba-common version satisfies the stated dependancy, I assume that there's a package bug. No big deal, but dselect should install smbfs if I've forced the selection, right? TIA, Paul -- Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] <- Please note new email address
