On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:32:06PM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote: > Just found out a conflicts/replaces on a virtual package does not > work: > > Selecting previously deselected package libblas4-dev. > dpkg: regarding libblas4-dev_1.2-1_i386.deb containing libblas4-dev: > libblas4-dev conflicts with libblas-3.so > atlas3-base-dev provides libblas-3.so and is installed. > atlas3-sse2-dev provides libblas-3.so and is installed. > atlas3-3dnow-dev provides libblas-3.so and is installed. > atlas3-sse-dev provides libblas-3.so and is installed. > dpkg: error processing libblas4-dev_1.2-1_i386.deb (--install): > conflicting packages - not installing libblas4-dev > Selecting previously deselected package libblas4-doc.
dpkg will not fix such issues, it's a task of apt (or aptitude). dpkg is correctly reporting that that libblas4-dev atlas*dev cannot be installed at the same time. > Package: libblas4-dev > Architecture: any > Section: devel > Provides: libblas-4.so > Conflicts: atlas2-dev (<= 3.0-8), atlas2-headers (<< 3.2.1ln-1), blas-dev, > libblas-3.so > Replaces: atlas2-dev (<= 3.0-8), atlas2-headers (<< 3.2.1ln-1), blas-dev, > libblas-3.so I think you might want to add refblas3-dev to the Replaces line, just to be safe. > > Suggestions appreciated. > > Take care, > > Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Kumar Appaiah writes: > > > On 17/10/2007, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > > > I think the main hold up is due to the atlas and lapack libraries. They > > > > still depend upon g77. Would anyone be interested to NMU them or should > > > > the > > > > NMUs be done only to fix RC bugs? > > > > If you do prepare NMUs, please upload those to experimental first; we > > didn't hear back from Camm now for some weeks, so the best thing would > > be to go ahead. As nearly all other stuff depends on refblas, lapack > > and atlas, these should be done before uploading anything to unstable. > > > > > I think we should move the discussion to debian-devel. I am mailing > > > there, will you also please follow the thread? > > > > It would be nice to keep the discussion in one place. some people from > > the gcc fortran list might listen here, and it's quiet enough that > > they can follow here (which is not the case for debian-devel). > > > > Matthias > > > > PS: Riku, didn't you start with the atlas packages? > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ========================================================================== > "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "rm -rf" only sounds scary if you don't have backups -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
