On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:35:26AM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: > For some reason, dselect marked a bunch of packages 'r' during my > recent upgrade from Potato to Woody. Some of them are packages I > depend on, e.g., python. > > So have these packages been removed? Are they about to be removed? > What's going on? > > Thank you... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# dpkg -l python > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) > ||/ Name Version Description > +++-==============-==============-============================================ > ri python 2.1.3-3.2 An interactive object-oriented scripting lan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# dpkg -l | grep ^r | wc -l > 83 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# /usr/bin/python > Python 2.1.3 (#1, Sep 7 2002, 15:29:56)
dpkg -l python2.2
Note that upgrades involving JUST apt will fail because apt does not
handle recommends or suggests at all. Totally ignores both. This means
that attempts made to ensure that upgrades work correctly fail. dselect
may be hard to use, but it is your friend if you're willing to run it and
be patient. I recommend getting sid's dselect and compiling it for woody,
though, as I did on furthur - sid's dselect is much better behaved and
less likely to stick you in a dependency resolution loop over a package
you don't need to care about..
--
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Here we go again
"Libtool shared library portability is only slightly more believable than
perpetual motion machines. Especially on AIX :)."
-- David Leimbach
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