On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 03:11:20AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 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.
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> You don't happen to have greylistd installed on your system, do you?# dpkg --get-selections | grep list # dpkg --get-selections | grep grey No, greylistd is not installed. > 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. # aptitude --without-recommends dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: python2.3-iconvcodec 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, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1494kB of archives. After unpacking 1416kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n Abort. Nope, "without recommends" is not a workaround. Cheers Geert Stappers
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