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--- Begin Message ---
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.2.15.9-2
Severity: normal
This happens in last version, it did not happen few weeks ago.
I have proprietary nvidia drivers compiled as module, but nevertheless
aptitude wants to install me a kernel-image:
# aptitude -vD dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
cramfsprogs (D: initrd-tools, R: cramfsprogs)
initrd-tools (D: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386)
kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 (R: nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2-386)
nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2-386 (D: nvidia-glx)
The following NEW packages will be installed:
cramfsprogs initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386
nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2-386
...
As you can see, it does so because nvidia-glx depends on
"nvidia-kernel-1.0.7174":
# aptitude show nvidia-glx
Package: nvidia-glx
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1.0.7174-3
Priority: optional
Section: non-free/x11
Maintainer: Randall Donald
Uncompressed Size: 9822k
Depends: nvidia-kernel-1.0.7174, xserver-common (>= 4.0.3), xlibmesa-glu
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
But, the drivers compiled and installed as make-kpkg's module already
provides it:
$ aptitude show nvidia-kernel-2.6.11
Package: nvidia-kernel-2.6.11
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1.0.7174-3+10.00.Custom
Priority: optional
Section: non-free/x11
Maintainer: Randall Donald
Uncompressed Size: 4506k
Depends: nvidia-kernel-common (>= 1.0.7174)
Recommends: kernel-image-2.6.11
Provides: nvidia-kernel-1.0.7174
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
apt-get dist-upgrade works fine, it does not install those extra
packages.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11
Locale: LANG=es_ES@euro, LC_CTYPE=es_ES@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3 0.5.28.6 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-12 GCC support library
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-1.2-5c102 1.2.5-4 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-12 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi,
2005-04-11 14:43 Ricardo Galli:
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.2.15.9-2
Severity: normal
This happens in last version, it did not happen few weeks ago.
This bug report is more than a decade old and several major releases
later, and the implementations changed a lot during the years, specially
around 2008-2010.
Hopefully this particular problem was silently fixed in between, but
even if not, we can hopefully find better examples than this one
involving packages and states from so long ago in the myriad of bug
reports still open (in fact, I have seen some which might be related,
about how to choose packages to fullfil dependencies).
But in general, I think that Provides are not ignored.
Sorry that this bug report went unhandled for so long, but now I am
going to close this bug report, not because it was not originally (or
perhaps still) valid, but because as I already said, by now I don't
think that it is very useful to keep open.
But if you are aware of the problem with recent versions of packages, by
all means please reopen or open a new bug.
Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
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