On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 11:40:01AM +0100, Jan Gregor wrote: > I tried to install libti68k-dev libticables3-dev and libticalcs3-dev > with: > apt-get --no-upgrade install libti68k-dev libticables3-dev libticalcs3-dev > > and there's result: > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > fileutils libusb-dev tidev-modules-source > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libti68k-dev libticables3-dev libticalcs3-dev libusb-dev > tidev-modules-source > 1 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 358 not > upgraded. > Need to get 0B/1151kB of archives. After unpacking 2400kB will be > used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > > > apt-get simply ignores my request to not upgrade fileutils.
It isn't quite so simple. tidev-modules-source Depends: coreutils (>= 4.5.1-1), so it is being installed automatically. This happens to force an upgrade of fileutils due to a conflict with coreutils. The alternative would be to fail, since those packages cannot be installed without upgrading fileutils. I believe the no-upgrade option only applies to packages which are explicitly requested, and not to packages which might be upgraded in order to satisfy dependencies. For example, apt-get --no-upgrade install fileutils would exit without upgrading fileutils. Perhaps the documentation should be clarified. -- - mdz
