B. Alexander wrote: > I've got an issue with a sid box that I have been maintaining for a > while. This is my workstation, and I have noticed a growing number of > broken packages, unmet dependencies and conflicts. I have been using > safe-upgrade for months now, hoping that it would work itself out over > time. However, this hasn't happened.
No, of course not. Sid is constantly undergoing the sort of changes that take place when you upgrade from one release to the next and which full-upgrade is designed to handle (and which safe-upgrade blocks): transitions, removal of obsolete packages, major version changes that require new library versions that may be incompatible with other packages, etc. Sid is often also in an inconsistent state when, for example, a package is uploaded in advance of its dependencies. By repeatedly running safe-upgrade you have forced these things to pile up. > So what can I do to fix the problems without losing functionality? "aptitude full-upgrade" and then patiently sort through the resulting mess. It might be simplest to write down all the proposed removals, let it do its thing, and then install the removed packages. > No problem. Most of my Debian installs at home run sid, with the rest > running testing...Except my firewall, which runs stable for the first > 6 months or so (until critical packages start getting long in the > tooth), then I upgrade it to testing and run until the next stable > release. I'm having trouble imagining what packages appropriate to a firewall could get long in the tooth. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87hbn5d5xf....@thumper.dhh.gt.org
