On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 12:49:20 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: >On Friday 09 January 2004 09:00 pm, Nick Boyce wrote:
>> With this deb source line : >> deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable xfree86 >> running "apt-get update; apt-get -s upgrade" gives me messages saying >> a number of X packages will be kept back : [...] >> I'd be grateful for anyone's advice here, before I screw up my >> system. Am I supposed to do a dist-upgrade to resolve this ? >Apt-get will not install a package if it depends on a new package. I >can't say if this will bonk your system but it is telling you >additional packages are needed. Dselect does a more complete job of >satisfying depends, or you could do 'apt-get -s intall' on the held >back packages to see what is happenning there. Thanks for that reminder - I should have thought of that. I've tried it now, with intriguing results : glimmer:/usr# apt-get -s install x-window-system-core Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: xlibmesa3-gl xlibmesa3-glu The following packages will be REMOVED: xlibmesa3 The following NEW packages will be installed: xlibmesa3-gl xlibmesa3-glu 1 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 29 not upgraded. [...] Well those replacement package names look like they may have OpenGL incorporated, where the standard Woody ones don't ... except that I thought Mesa *was* an OpenGL library .. ?!? Same again here ... but puzzlingly a new version of debconf is also required : glimmer:/usr# apt-get -s install xbase-clients Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: debconf xfree86-common xlibmesa3-glu xlibs xlibs-dev The following NEW packages will be installed: xlibmesa3-glu 5 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 26 not upgraded. [...] Inst debconf (1.2.35 www.backports.org) [...] It's pretty much the same with every kept-back package I try manually installing. More curiously, the new xlibs appears to conflict with Abiword (which I'd forgotten I'd ever installed, so that's fine with me) _and_ Nethack ... weird ! : glimmer:/usr# apt-get -s install xlibs Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: debconf xbase-clients xfree86-common xlibmesa3-glu xlibs-dev The following packages will be REMOVED: abiword abiword-common abiword-gtk abiword-plugins nethack nethack-common nethack-x11 The following NEW packages will be installed: xlibmesa3-glu 5 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 7 to remove and 26 not upgraded. [...] and I get the same with xterm too. >Be careful of mixing backports, that said, I did what you are attempting >with Adrian Bunks backports with success. That's encouraging - thanks. I've taken a [gasp] backup of the system now, so I'm feeling brave :-) I may just try the upgrade anyway ... after a bit more investigation of these conflicts. Cheers, Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- Steinbach's Guideline for Systems Programming: Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.
