Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: normal When I try to build libc6 from source, the following happens:
laura:/tmp# apt-get build-dep libc6 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. laura:/tmp# apt-get -b source libc6 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 11.8MB of source archives. Get:1 http://www.mirror.ac.uk testing/main glibc 2.2.5-6 (dsc) [1202B] Get:2 http://www.mirror.ac.uk testing/main glibc 2.2.5-6 (tar) [11.4MB] Get:3 http://www.mirror.ac.uk testing/main glibc 2.2.5-6 (diff) [384kB] Fetched 3B in 1s (2B/s) Skipping unpack of already unpacked source in glibc-2.2.5 dpkg-buildpackage: source package is glibc dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 2.2.5-6 dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture is i386 dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: kernel-headers-2.4 dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting. dpkg-buildpackage: (Use -d flag to override.) Build command 'cd glibc-2.2.5 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed. E: Child process failed In other words, apt fails to install kernel-headers 2.4 even though it is needed for the subsequent build. Initially I thought this might be a libc6 bug rather than apt, and filed it as such, but got the following back from the libc6 maintainer: - It must be something in apt. Obviously, dpkg gets it's list of build-deps from the source package libc6, which means I have listed them correctly. If apt doesn't install them, that's a bug in apt. The main thing here is that kernel-headers-2.4 is a virtual package which is generally satisfied by a kernel-headers-2.4.x package. Maybe dpkg is just broken. - Not sure then if this is an apt bug or a dpkg one; either way, I hope you can track it down or reassign it if appropriate. If I can help in any way with extra debug info., let me know. Wasn't sure how to proceed. Regards Andrew -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux laura 2.4.18 #2 Wed May 29 19:17:31 BST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
