-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 08/16/2010 05:08 PM, Johannes Schauer wrote: > hi! let me explain with the example of xserver-xorg. amongst others it > has dependencies of xserver-xorg-input-all and xserver-xorg-video-all but > both dependencies can also be provided by the packages xserver-xorg-input-7 > and xserver-xorg-video-6. as you all know, the difference is that the > meta-packages of xserver-xorg-input-all and xserver-xorg-video-all will pull > all video and input packages while the virtual packages of > xserver-xorg-input-7 and xserver-xorg-video-6 allow only one of the drivers > to be installed to satisfy the dependency. as a result apt-get install > xserver-xorg-video-foobar will not install all video drivers and apt-get > install xserver-xorg-input-baz will not install all input drivers. my > problem now is, that when i do apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-foobar i > will still get xserver-xorg-input all and when i do apt-get install > xserver-xorg-input-baz i will still get xserver-xorg-video all. trying to > resolv this by doing apt-get ins tall xserver-xorg-video-foobar xserver-xorg-input-baz doesnt help and will still get the *-all package of input or video whichever is not mentioned first. so in the general case of having a package with several dependencies that are satisfied by either one *-all metapackage or one virtual package where i can select the package providing it - how do i tell apt to select the specific package i want in BOTH cases? and in particular: how do i do that for an installation of xserver-xorg without removing the unwanted packages later? cheers josch > >
You post is difficult to read, as it doesn't have any newlines. If I understand correctly, you are looking for "aptitude unmarkauto foo" Regards, - -- Jordan Metzmeier -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJMabE9AAoJEKj/C3qNthmTFQYQAIJWykt08mXurKbM1aACz6XA sIyC0yCO9kOK1EZ2mepyX03ilheUGZhce19kxb4NmIxgr80p52JMiGxCQFzShp5C jf4DffM3jFpejm3hozG5AghGrY0s60ryvoQtgqnMbpWfAcXQXLzJr7Ntac8R1RtL Wm3GsQXPreiKe9LEeFGMMf0XFwt6XxGhdYIa4bgtsYWqgOtzVgQSPbBo2WA33hSQ n33d2W7TnpGqjd+dolX9Lok6C47gi4HNzld98MV3RyNKNRvpz/ebuAOIfpASSODL UPftXJrW2a9HvvgIWW/5IbZOTe9mO5/IVXMnWTdC4DAirnAtqQoKdsYGPquF4TOS 9TWeHSznXlc4XFgIksqSw64qn2PjIT5UR3yiQOaJz8KLGD1uOj7T+z2cV572H3oU qiwxJM14oxBvEvk3cgGNCaDgZ9RkoncfyQmWiRPcDBHwrHMExylNQg50GXlD7TQv Z9XDFRbWsbYKfH5o8M7oe1TAiiGqW9L7YFeFDTOBJ+UD7Q9uVVinAilyQxKWlZQH jWGFHwDH0SxWEKnYsAoOEwWhK3EKnvQB0zPtOTtuH1Nf1NqaArRXJLoP5z5/Xpmj C7voKjR401Nlu35p1yEMXvKPqJT3l3HhA2cs4p/uokq4tuGL4fMVfKF6+TnZpR9+ vP+RHZ8W1fDDTGGhnBkU =16si -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
