Hi! Last night apt-get decided to make my life even more miserable ;-)
It wants to remove my kernel and a number of other packages: arachne:/home/lupe# apt-get --no-remove dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: cpio debhelper dpkg-dev i2c-source initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4.10-k6 kernel-package lm-sensors-source 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 8 to remove and 0 not upgraded. E: Packages need to be removed but Remove is disabled. Also, it has decided tar needs some work: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back tar 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. But AFAICT, tar is up to date: arachne:/home/lupe# dpkg --status tar Package: tar Essential: yes Status: install ok installed Priority: required Section: base Installed-Size: 1128 Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1.13.22-1 Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.3-7) Suggests: bzip2 Description: GNU tar Tar is a program ... arachne:/home/lupe# dpkg --print-avail tar Package: tar Essential: yes Priority: required Section: base Installed-Size: 1128 Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 1.13.22-1 Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.3-7) Suggests: bzip2 Filename: pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.13.22-1_i386.deb Size: 472880 MD5sum: 22bc2012d7ad4eb142f4d92b7b95ab72 Description: GNU tar Tar is a program ... This is the version of apt: arachne:/home/lupe# dpkg --print-avail apt Package: apt Priority: important Section: base Installed-Size: 1984 Maintainer: APT Development Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 0.5.4 Replaces: libapt-pkg-doc (<< 0.3.7), libapt-pkg-dev (<< 0.3.7) Provides: libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.2 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.3-7), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 Suggests: dpkg-dev Filename: pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.5.4_i386.deb Size: 614918 MD5sum: 98fe513cb584bbaafb7496707d6f119d Description: Advanced front-end for dpkg This is Debian's next generation front-end ... I have no idea where apt-get is getting it's ideas from. dpkg --get-selections only lists two pakages with a different status than 'install': aptitude deinstall sysklogd deinstall I should purge them soon... When I use dselect, the packages all look OK, installed, and stay installed. But when I have dselect execute apt-get, it still wants to remove those packages. I tried strace-ing apt-get, but can't see anything that could give apt-get these ideas. This is run nightly to get woody up-to-date: apt-get update && apt-get autoclean && apt-get -q -d -y -u dist-upgrade The sources are: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free deb http://non-US.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free I had this still in from an earlier incarnation of the "arachne" system: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free But I've commented it out for now. No change. Anmybody got any ideas? Lupe Christoph -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://free.prohosting.com/~lupe | | I have challenged the entire ISO-9000 quality assurance team to a | | Bat-Leth contest on the holodeck. They will not concern us again. | | http://public.logica.com/~stepneys/joke/klingon.htm |
