* "Martin" == Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, Martin> Hmm, I just tried it with a setup like for the alpha tests, Martin> but with i386 (s/alpha/i386/ in the apt.conf file and the Martin> commands), and it works as expected. This is getting scary. I could have sworn it worked, but I cleaned up everything, and run the script to rebuild the files and dirs. Now it is the same thing for i386 as with alpha (at least it is consistant). $ apt-get -f -s -d -c apt.conf.i386 install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. $ apt-get -f -s -d -c apt.conf.i386 install xemacs20 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package xemacs20 is a virtual package provided by: xemacs20-nomule 20.4-14 xemacs20-mule-canna-wnn 20.4-14 xemacs20-mule 20.4-14 You should explicly select one to install. E: Package xemacs20 has no installation candidate $ apt-get -f -s -d -c apt.conf.i386 install xemacs20-nomule Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: emacsen-common libcompfaceg1 libgpmg1 libjpeg62 libpng2 nas-lib xemacs20-bin xemacs20-support xfree86-common xlib6g xpm4g zlib1g The following NEW packages will be installed: emacsen-common libcompfaceg1 libgpmg1 libjpeg62 libpng2 nas-lib xemacs20-bin xemacs20-nomule xemacs20-support xfree86-common xlib6g xpm4g zlib1g 0 packages upgraded, 13 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Inst emacsen-common [...] $ apt-get -f -s -d -c apt.conf.i386 install task-sgml Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: task-sgml: Depends: xemacs20 E: Sorry, broken packages $ su - Password: # apt-get -s -f -d install task-sgml Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: docbook-to-man-ans docbook-xml docbook2man docbook2texi The following NEW packages will be installed: docbook-to-man-ans docbook-xml docbook2man docbook2texi task-sgml 0 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 50 not upgraded. Inst docbook-xml [...] Aargh, why doesn't apt-get work the same way in the simulated environment as in the real setup :-( Get http://www.debian.org/~martinb/taskcheck.tar.gz if you want to study this on the living thing. Thanks for any help. Ciao, Martin
