Felix Zielcke <[email protected]> writes:
> reasign 538968 apt
> thanks
> Am Dienstag, den 28.07.2009, 11:39 +0100 schrieb Nigel Horne:
>> Felix Zielcke wrote:
>> > Am Dienstag, den 28.07.2009, 09:55 +0100 schrieb Nigel Horne:
>> >
>> >> Package: grub-pc
>> >> Severity: important
>> >>
>> >> sh-3.2# apt-get install grub-pc
>> >> Reading package lists... Done
>> >> Building dependency tree
>> >> Reading state information... Done
>> >> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>> >> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>> >> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>> >> or been moved out of Incoming.
>> >> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>> >>
>> >> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>> >> grub-pc: Depends: grub-common (= 1.96+20090709-1) but 1.96+20090725-1
>> >> is to be installed
>> >> E: Broken packages
>> >> sh-3.2#
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > I just downloaded the i386 .deb's from ftp.de.debian.org and the Depends
>> > is correct, i.e. Depends: grub-common (= 1.96+20090725-1)
>> > Which mirror do you use? Maybe it's outdated/broken.
>> > Or maybe this is a bug in apt
>> > In that case try apt-get -t unstable install grub-pc grub-common
>> >
>> I gave "apt-get install grub-pc" another go to see if the mirror
>> (http://http.us.debian.org/debian/) is now up-to-date. It isn't. However
>> when I tried "aptitude install grub-pc" that worked - so why does
>> aptitude work where apt-get doesn't?
>>
>> -Nigel
>>
>
> http.us.debian.org is an alias to 4 mirrors.
> All 4 have 1.96+20090725-1 i386 in their pool, but one (149.20.20.135)
> still has 1.96+20090709-1 in the i386 unstable Packages.bz2
> This is weird, either you shouldn't get at all the new versions or for
> both packages.
> I'm not really sure what to do with your report now.
> Maybe it's a DNS problem or a bug in apt.
> Strange that aptitude worked.
> Well I reassign to apt, maybe it's maintainers can say something about
> this.
Also note that apt-get takes pins and versions seriously while
aptitude only takes them as a suggestion. Aptitude might verry well
choose to install testing versions despite unstable being higher or
even downgrade packages if that is the only way to make the packages
installable.
MfG
Goswin
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