Hi Matt > > On upgrading from woody to sarge apt-get dist-upgrade did not upgrade all > > packages. It seems to fail if it needs to remove old packages which are > > not needed anymore: > > Does it work properly if you remove your /etc/apt/preferences and have only > sarge in sources.list?
As I wrote I had already completed the upgrade with apt-get install. But I have reinstalled the old mc packages from woody (as the example with the fewest dependencies) and have tried to break it down to the minimum: no apt.conf, no preferences file and only one apt source, without success: # apt-get update Hit http://http.us.debian.org sarge/main Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org sarge/main Release Reading Package Lists... Done # apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back: mc 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. # apt-get install mc Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: mc-common The following packages will be upgraded: mc 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/1992kB of archives. After unpacking 483kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. # apt-show-versions -a -p mc mc 4.5.55-1.2woody3 install ok installed mc 1:4.6.0-4.6.1-pre1-3 testing mc/testing upgradeable from 4.5.55-1.2woody3 to 1:4.6.0-4.6.1-pre1-3 # apt-show-versions -a -p mc-common mc-common 4.5.55-1.2woody3 install ok installed No testing version mc-common 4.5.55-1.2woody3 installed: No available version in archive # apt-config dump APT ""; APT::Architecture "i386"; APT::Build-Essential ""; APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential"; Dir "/"; Dir::State "var/lib/apt/"; Dir::State::lists "lists/"; Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list"; Dir::State::userstatus "status.user"; Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status"; Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/"; Dir::Cache::archives "archives/"; Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin"; Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin"; Dir::Etc "etc/apt/"; Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list"; Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list"; Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d"; Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf"; Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d"; Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences"; Dir::Bin ""; Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods"; Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg"; DPkg ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10"; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true"; DPkg::Tools ""; DPkg::Tools::Options ""; DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges ""; DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2"; DPkg::Post-Invoke ""; DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/bin/debsums ]; then /usr/bin/debsums --generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/archives; fi"; # cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sarge main -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.25 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-4sarge1 GCC support library ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-6sarge1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 -- no debconf information
