On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:14:43PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > Hi, > > First, I can reproduce this easily, thanks for a good report.
Nothing but the best for Debian :) > aptitude does not go around manually fulfilling dependencies for > packages just because a particular version was selected. I could, but > that's apt's job! > > As I have said before, I am very disinclined to > maintain unnecessary hacks and workarounds for deficiencies in apt; > they should be fixed at the source. True enough. I'm all for cutting out layers of cruft. > > aptitude will already ask apt (the apt libraries) to automatically > fulfill dependencies for what you select. apt is apparently ignoring > those dependencies because they are not from your default distribution > (or release, I can't remember the "proper" term) > > You can check that this behavior is present in the underlying > libraries by trying to install tubesock with apt-get. It's a general problem, not at all specific to tubesock. It happens any time I'm installing a package that has dependencies that can't be satisfied from stable. I've already got tubesock/unstable installed, so I need to find another package who's unstable version has unsatisfied deps from unstable... # apt-get install nessus/unstable ... Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: nessus: Depends: libnessus1 (>= 1.2.5) but 1.0.10-2 is to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages Try it yourself with any such package. They're easy to find if you've got a mostly-stable system. > I'm forwarding this to the apt maintainers. If they say this will > never be fixed in apt, I might consider hacking around it. You can tell apt which release to take as the default on the command line: [EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-get install nessus -t unstable Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libnessus1 libpcap0.7 The following NEW packages will be installed: libpcap0.7 2 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 444 not upgraded. Need to get 276kB/338kB of archives. After unpacking 180kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. (you don't need to say nessus/unstable, since apt-get install means "install/upgrade these packages") This results in all dependencies being satisfied by installing the unstable version, even if some of the dependencies would have been happy with the stable version, so it can result in more packages tracking the unstable version than necessary. You didn't mention the more specific problem of the wrong versions getting selected in aptitude, but I take it that's what the retitle to something about MarkInstall was about. As long as that gets fixed, it won't be too painful to select the deps, then for any that are still red, go into their page and select their deps... There aren't too many recursive trees of deps that would need to get selected. Once you've pulled in the unstable version of e.g. the gnome libs for one package, they're there for any other gnome-using packages you want to bump up to unstable. Anyway, as long as the things I pointed out that are unquestionably bugs get fixed, things will be acceptable for people that only use aptitude and don't know about apt-get -t unstable. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BC
