Re: aptitude wants to remove 'locate'

2009-06-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 01:13:50PM -0400, Rick Pasotto was heard to say: > However, when I enter 'aptitude why-not locate' I'm told "Unable to find > a reason to remove locate." Just FYI, why-not tells you what would actively prevent the installation of a package (i.e., what conflicts with it)

Re: aptitude wants to remove 'locate'

2009-06-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-06-14 23:06 +0200, Rick Pasotto wrote: > 'mlocate' was already installed but I had overlooked the line about > /usr/bin/locate using /etc/alternatives to actually point to mlocate. > > Did the 'locate' database get purged when 'locate' was removed? No, it¹ gets purged when the locate pack

Re: aptitude wants to remove 'locate'

2009-06-14 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 07:48:41PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-06-14 19:13 +0200, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > 'dlocate' now shows in the update list for 'aptitude -s safe-upgrade' > > and when I try 'aptitude install dlocate' I'm told that 'locate' will be > > removed. > > This is because

Re: aptitude wants to remove 'locate'

2009-06-14 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 01:13:50PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: Looking at the depends, conflicts, and replaces lines I can find nothing to indicate that upgrading 'dlocate' involves removing 'locate'. Could someone explain what's going on? From the dlocate changelog for version 1.0: no longer u

Re: aptitude wants to remove 'locate'

2009-06-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,14.Jun.09, 13:13:50, Rick Pasotto wrote: > 'dlocate' now shows in the update list for 'aptitude -s safe-upgrade' > and when I try 'aptitude install dlocate' I'm told that 'locate' will be > removed. Please post the full output of 'aptitude -s safe-upgrade' Regards, Andrei -- If you can't

Re: aptitude wants to remove 'locate'

2009-06-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-06-14 19:13 +0200, Rick Pasotto wrote: > 'dlocate' now shows in the update list for 'aptitude -s safe-upgrade' > and when I try 'aptitude install dlocate' I'm told that 'locate' will be > removed. This is because locate is marked as automatically installed, and the old dlocate is the only

aptitude wants to remove 'locate'

2009-06-14 Thread Rick Pasotto
'dlocate' now shows in the update list for 'aptitude -s safe-upgrade' and when I try 'aptitude install dlocate' I'm told that 'locate' will be removed. However, when I enter 'aptitude why-not locate' I'm told "Unable to find a reason to remove locate." Looking at the depends, conflicts, and repla