[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Gunthorpe) wrote on 31.03.01 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Kai Henningsen wrote: > > > # apt-get -ums --purge install libxerces1- libxercesicu1- > > Send me a status file while this is happening. I'll see if I can reproduce it, but it seems to me what happened was fairly obvious. apt-get first noticed that the second package was not installed, so it forgot all about not wanting it. Then it noticed that the -dev package would be without a dependency, and decided to install just that second package to fill that void. (Which was of course the reason for specifying that package in the first place.) Mentioning the -dev package as a removable worked around that problem. Here's the relevant apt-cache data (after the removal - incidentally, an empty line between Package: blocks would make this much easier to read, currently it groups wrong optically): Package: libxerces1 Versions: 1.3.0-2(/var/lib/apt/lists/_home_mirror_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.uni-erlangen.de_pub_Linux_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages) Reverse Depends: xalan,libxerces1 1.3.0-1.1 libxercesicu1,libxerces1 libxerces1-dev,libxerces1 1.3.0-2 libxalan1,libxerces1 1.3.0-1.1 Dependencies: 1.3.0-2 - libc6 (2 2.2.1-2) libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (0 (null)) libxercesicu1 (0 (null)) Provides: 1.3.0-2 - Reverse Provides: Package: libxercesicu1 Versions: 1.3.0-2(/var/lib/apt/lists/_home_mirror_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.uni-erlangen.de_pub_Linux_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages) Reverse Depends: libxerces1-dev,libxercesicu1 1.3.0-2 libxerces1,libxercesicu1 Dependencies: 1.3.0-2 - libc6 (2 2.2.1-2) libicu16 (0 (null)) libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (0 (null)) libxerces1 (0 (null)) Provides: 1.3.0-2 - Reverse Provides: Package: libxerces1-dev Versions: 1.3.0-2(/var/lib/apt/lists/_home_mirror_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.uni-erlangen.de_pub_Linux_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages) Reverse Depends: libxalan1-dev,libxerces1-dev Dependencies: 1.3.0-2 - libxerces1 (21 1.3.0-2) libxercesicu1 (5 1.3.0-2) libc6-dev (0 (null)) Provides: 1.3.0-2 - Reverse Provides: MfG Kai
