On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 11:24:09AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > After succesfull `apt-get dist-upgrade` knows apt-get that the dist > upgrade was done, but aptitude still wants to install exim > and some other packages.
> # apt-get dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Calculating Upgrade... Done > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > # aptitude dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done > Reading task descriptions... Done > The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: > postfix > The following NEW packages will be installed: > at exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light mdetect read-edid > The following packages will be REMOVED: > postfix > 0 packages upgraded, 7 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 1494kB of archives. After unpacking 1483kB will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n > Abort. > # You don't happen to have greylistd installed on your system, do you? The most likely explanation for this is that aptitude is trying to satisfy a Recommends: for some package already installed on the system, and believes that installing exim4 is the only way to do this. You might also try running aptitude --without-recommends dist-upgrade, to see if the problem goes away. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
