Alan Macdougall wrote: > > On 3/6/01 at 2:16 PM, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I had a similar problem awhile ago going from > > potato r2 to woody. In my case, I was able to > > solve it by using apt-get install dpkg to force > > dpkg to upgrade first, and then once I did that, > > apt-get dist-upgrade seemed to be able to > > proceed okay. > > Hmmm - I gave this a try, but it didn't work - I continued to get the > same error as previously. > > I tried just a plain apt-get upgrade as well, but this has caused lots > of other problems (eg, X doesn't work now, there's also some failed > dependencies like gnome-core appearing to depend on a version of > libcapplet0 that doesn't exist yet) and I think I might retreat to 2.2r3 > until I understand things a bit better.
But the GNOME there is ooold and ugly... GNOME in testing/unstable is a mess for us because there are versioned inter-dependencies between arch-dependant and arch-independant packages and our autobuilder can't keep up with the pace of uploaded new versions. gnome-panel and gnome-panel-data is probably the most famous and horrible example. What I do is this: I have both testing and unstable lines in /etc/apt/sources.list, and my /etc/apt/apt.conf contains the line APT::Default-Release "testing"; which makes testing the default distribution to install packages from. To get packages from unstable if required, there are two ways: Either append the distribution to a package with a slash, e.g. gnome-panel/unstable, or use -t unstable after apt-get. The former will get only that package from unstable while the latter will get all listed packages and their dependants from there. Depending on the GNOME brokenness du jour, I have to mix'n'match these two methods to be able to install/upgrade. Hope this is comprehensive and useful... -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
