Package: dhcp-client Version: 3.1.1-6 Severity: important User: [email protected] Usertags: package-installation
Hi there! While analyzing how to solve bug #520014 [1] for Debian on the Openmoko FreeRunner, I found that, as expected, dhcpcd, pump and udhcpc provide dhcp-client. However, apt-get seems to not take that into account since a real dhcp-client package exists: ===== debian-gta02:~# dpkg -s udhcpc | grep Provides Provides: dhcp-client debian-gta02:~# dpkg -s udhcpc | grep Status Status: install ok installed debian-gta02:~# apt-get install dhcp-client Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: dhcp3-client dhcp3-common Suggested packages: resolvconf avahi-autoipd The following NEW packages will be installed: dhcp-client dhcp3-client dhcp3-common 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 543kB of archives. After this operation, 1155kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n Abort. debian-gta02:~# ===== However, apt-get behaves correctly if I try to install another package which provides the "virtual" dhcp-client package: ===== debian-gta02:~#apt-get install dhcpcd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: udhcpc The following NEW packages will be installed: dhcpcd 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 48.1kB of archives. After this operation, 69.6kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n Abort. debian-gta02:~# ===== In this respect, reportbug is correct as well, since it recognizes that dhcp-client can be both a virtual and real package: ===== Using 'Luca Capello <l...@debian-gta02>' as your from address. Getting status for dhcp-client... No matching source or binary packages. Which of the following installed packages is the bug in? 1 udhcpc very small DHCP client 2 dhcp-client Uninstalled/non-existent package Select one of these packages: ===== I am not sure how to solve this bug, hence the misleading title. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca Footnotes: [1] http://bugs.debian.org/520014 -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: armel (armv4tl) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-20090303.gitb9de904e (PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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