On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 00:05 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 10:46:42PM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
> > One aspect I don't understand is the meaning of the symbol consisting of
> > a white box followed by a grey tick. This doesn't appear in the list of
> > symbols on the help menu and the symbols aren't listed in the manual
> > I've looked at. For example, timezone or wxGTK - the available and
> > installed version are the same, so what are the patches?
> 
> This means that the packages for this patch are already installed,
> likely manually, but the "patch" isn't. You can just select the patch,
> click Accept and it will be gone.

Hi Marcus,

Thanks for your reply, but I'm afraid I still don't understand some of
it. If the package is installed but the patch isn't, I thought I should
see a green and white Z. What's the difference in these cases? When you
say 'it will be gone', do you mean the patch will be installed?
 
> > Another aspect is why some patches are shown with a white triangle and
> > white box with a black tick when the packages themselves have a black
> > triangle with a green and white Z (e.g. krb5). Other patches for
> > packages marked in this way are themselves marked with a white triangle
> > and a green and white Z (e.g. python). What's the difference?
> 
> refresh, some packages have been installed that do not satisfy the patch.

Sorry, I don't understand this at all. What's refresh? How can I see
what doesn't satisfy the patch (Check says all dependencies are OK)? How
can I see what rule it is using to decide that something should be
autoinstalled?

> > The final aspect is specific to gtk2. There is a patch for gtk2, which I
> > have installed. Why can't I see a matching patch to gtk2-debuginfo?
> > There's a version conflict. Am I misunderstanding something or is this a
> > bug?
> 
> We do not ship updates for -debuginfo packages, you need to deinstall 
> gtk2-debuginfo before updating.

Have I understood you correctly: As soon as there's an update to a
package, it's no longer possible to debug it?

Thanks, Dave

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