Your message dated Wed, 6 Oct 2010 20:47:19 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#599336: apt-get removes other packages than requested
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Package: apt
Version: 0.8.6
Severity: serious
Okay, this was a WTF moment here. I was playing with python-visual on my HTPC
and when done wanted to remove all the cruft again. So I ran
apt-get remove --purge "... the packages ..."
and it removed me half of my system (and as apt ignores ^C at the moemnt,
i was not amused :()
Here is what happens when I try to re-remove the packages from my system:
eiga:~# apt-get remove --purge libblas3gf libboost-python1.42.0
libboost-signals1.42.0 libboost-thread1.42.0 libcairomm-1.0-1 libgfortran3
libglade2-0 libglademm-2.4-1c2a libglibmm-2.4-1c2a libgtkglext1
libgtkglextmm-x11-1.2-0 libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a liblapack3gf libmpfr4
libpangomm-1.4-1 python-numpy python-visual
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package libblas3gf is not installed, so not removed
Package libboost-python1.42.0 is not installed, so not removed
Package libboost-signals1.42.0 is not installed, so not removed
Package libboost-thread1.42.0 is not installed, so not removed
Package libcairomm-1.0-1 is not installed, so not removed
Package libgfortran3 is not installed, so not removed
Package libglibmm-2.4-1c2a is not installed, so not removed
Package libgtkglext1 is not installed, so not removed
Package libgtkglextmm-x11-1.2-0 is not installed, so not removed
Package libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a is not installed, so not removed
Package liblapack3gf is not installed, so not removed
Package libglade2-0 is not installed, so not removed
Package libglademm-2.4-1c2a is not installed, so not removed
Package libpangomm-1.4-1 is not installed, so not removed
Package python-numpy is not installed, so not removed
Package python-visual is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libsmbclient libts-0.0-0 libtalloc2 libswscale0 libcdio10 python-bluez
python2.5-minimal libusplash0 libavutil50 liblcms1 libidn11 libsamplerate0
libx264-104 ttf-liberation
libsvga1 libsdl-mixer1.2 libglew1.5 libcap2 libspeex1 libapr1 libwbclient0
libboost-iostreams1.40.0 python-central libass4 libmpfr1ldbl python2.5
libsdl1.2debian-alsa
libwavpack1 libmysqlclient16 libavcodec52 libdirectfb-1.2-9 libx264-88
liblog4cxx10 libx264-98 libsdl-image1.2 python-qt3 libmp3lame0 libenca0
libsdl1.2debian python-sip
libcurl3 libmikmod2 libvpx0 libssh2-1 libtheora0 liba52-0.7.4 libpostproc51
liblzo2-2 libvorbisfile3 libflac8 liborc-0.4-0 libgsm1 libvorbisenc2
linux-headers-2.6.32-3-common
libasyncns0 libschroedinger-1.0-0 libavformat52 libxvidcore4 tsconf libmad0
libdb4.5 libsysfs2 libopencore-amrnb0 openssl libapt-pkg-perl libpulse0
libcurl3-gnutls libqt3-mt
libdirac-encoder0 usplash-theme-debian libglu1-mesa librtmp0 libvorbis0a
libopenjpeg2 libaudio2 libaprutil1 mysql-common libopencore-amrwb0
ca-certificates lsb-release dpatch
libsndfile1 libmng1 libmpeg2-4 libmms0 libogg0 libfaac0 libfaad2 libsmpeg0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
build-essential* cpp* cpp-4.3* cpp-4.4* dkms* g++* g++-4.4* gcc* gcc-4.3*
gcc-4.4* libmpfr4* libstdc++6-4.4-dev* linux-headers-2.6-amd64*
linux-headers-2.6.32-5-amd64*
nvidia-glx* nvidia-kernel-dkms* x11-utils* xbmc* xbmc-bin* xbmc-data*
xbmc-skin-confluence* xbmc-standalone*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 22 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 136 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? ^C
None of the requested packages are installed and apt still tries to remove
something completelly different (rendering the system unusable as its only
purpose is running xbmc :))
Report not written on the machine failing, thus no apt configuration files
included. These are all default on "eiga".
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-2 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
pn aptitude | synaptic | wajig <none> (no description available)
ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.5 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii python-apt 0.7.98.1 Python interface to libapt-pkg
-- no debconf information
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2010/10/6 Evgeni Golov <[email protected]>:
> and it removed me half of my system (and as apt ignores ^C at the moemnt,
> i was not amused :()
I was near to the point to say that this is a feature rather than a bug -
its not a good idea to kill a running dpkg process and APT prints out
what it does in all glory details BEFORE doing it and even asks for
confirmation… its not like a "rm -r --no-preserve-root /" or some dd
style stuff…
( In my humble opinion it is way cleaner to let dpkg do its dirty job if it is
already running and just installing all i need again after dpkg finishes, but
maybe my problem is that i am not so fast at typing a 'y'… )
> Here is what happens when I try to re-remove the packages from my system:
>
> eiga:~# apt-get remove --purge libblas3gf libboost-python1.42.0
> libboost-signals1.42.0 libboost-thread1.42.0 libcairomm-1.0-1 libgfortran3
> libglade2-0 libglademm-2.4-1c2a libglibmm-2.4-1c2a libgtkglext1
> libgtkglextmm-x11-1.2-0 libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a liblapack3gf libmpfr4
> libpangomm-1.4-1 python-numpy python-visual
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> build-essential* cpp* cpp-4.3* cpp-4.4* dkms* g++* g++-4.4* gcc* gcc-4.3*
> gcc-4.4* libmpfr4* libstdc++6-4.4-dev* linux-headers-2.6-amd64*
> linux-headers-2.6.32-5-amd64*
> nvidia-glx* nvidia-kernel-dkms* x11-utils* xbmc* xbmc-bin* xbmc-data*
> xbmc-skin-confluence* xbmc-standalone*
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 22 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> After this operation, 136 MB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? ^C
Don't shoot the messenger!
You requested to remove libmpfr4 which is a hard-dependency of the gcc-family.
x11-utils depends on cpp, which is a dependency of xbmc-bin from which you
can properly guess why the rest of xbmc is removed.
The option -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=1 will tell you all the glory
details if you are really interested in the complete dependency chain.
If the dependency chain is a sane one is another point, but completely out of
scope for APT, it does what it was asked for so i close this serious PEBKAC now…
Best regards
David Kalnischkies
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