On Sep 13, 2004, at 11:43 AM, Anthony Agelastos wrote:
Hello and thank you all for your prompt replies. I did the
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
and that fixed the not upgraded items for me. This takes me to another question or two.
1) Can obsoleted packages be removed without breaking something? I ask this because now, through dselect, I see the following listed:
--- Obsolete and local packages present on system ---
----- Obsolete/local Optional packages -----
------- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section libs -------
*** Opt libs dlcompat 20030629-15 <none>
------- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section libs/perlmods -------
*** Opt libs/per digest-md5-p 2.24-4 <none>
----- Obsolete/local Unclassified packages -----
------- Obsolete/local Unclassified packages in section libs/perlmods -------
*** ? libs/per finance-quot 1.08-11 <none>
*** ? libs/per finance-quot 0.31-11 <none>
*** ? libs/per html-tableex 1.08-11 <none>
*** ? libs/per libwww-pm 5.76-12 <none>
(I think most of these were required by the old gnucash). If they are sitting on my system wasting space (which on my PowerBook G4 400 MHz with only 9.6 GB space, they are), I would like to remove them asap.
Go ahead and try to remove them. If they aren't needed they'll be removed, if they are, there will be a warning about other things that have been removed.
2) If Fink has (unofficially) updated to 0.7.1, why is it that fink -V still shows me:
tibook:~ iqgrande$ fink -V Package manager version: 0.21.2 Distribution version: 0.7.0
I expected it to say 0.7.1. Especially since I checked some other emails sent out recently, and I see things like:
"fink version:
Package manager version: 0.21.2 Distribution version: 0.7.1.rsync" (from veera venkataramani regarding Printing with gnumeric)
from other people. I understand this person is setup to use rsync and not the straight point-release as I have. Even if I do a fink selfupdate and choose option 3 for the point release, it says that I am current. The only thing I can assume is that things were updated for unstable and the testing (cvs, rsync) crowd but not for the point release crowd. Is this true?
Just as a note: CVS and rsync aren't just for "testing"--they're for any and all updates on the source distribution.
That being said, I'd assume what you're seeing is that the packages that make up the 0.7.1 point release (binary distribution version) have been updated, but not the distribution version itself.
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