On 2009-09-05 09:25 +0200, Miles Bader wrote: > Sven Joachim <[email protected]> writes: >>> (I _can_ install "grub-pc" explicitly, so there's no obvious conflict) >> >> There is, grub-pc conflicts with grub. I'll file a bug report on that >> issue. > > Hmm. > > Shouldn't this sort of situation cause _some_ kind of complaint from > aptitude? I mean, it just removes the "grub" package despite it not > being marked "auto", and _doesn't_ attempt to replace it with anything > else.
Yes, aptitude should really warn. Even the experimental aptitude version does not tell anything when trying to install grub in a chroot: ,---- | # LANG=C aptitude -V -D -v install grub | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree | Reading state information... Done | Reading extended state information | Initializing package states... Done | No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. | 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. | Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. | Writing extended state information... Done | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree | Reading state information... Done | Reading extended state information | Initializing package states... Done | | Current status: 0 broken [+0], 4 updates [+0], 194 new [+0]. `---- I'm 90% sure that this must have been reported already, but right now I cannot find a matching bug among the 500+ outstanding reports. Sven _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
