Re: new perl dependencies
Hello Ian, I ran into same problem last night during up update. Running potato now and so I figured I would update a few times a week. Last night, it was KDE for me. one screen then back to dependency back and fourth. Finally, I used the Q to force it and it worked. Don't know much about dselect, so I hope I didn't break anything in the process. Good luck! On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Ian Zimmerman wrote: When I run dselect last night, there was a bunch of important packages that had been upgraded. One of them was perl-5.005-doc. I accepted all the suggestions, but when I was ready to exit selection mode and start downloading, I was thrown into a conflict/dependency screen with just perl-5.005 and perl-5.005-doc. And no matter what I did, dselect threw me into that screen again and again. I had to force my way out with an `x'. Everything seems to run for the moment, but I am shaken. Is this some kind of circular dependency among the packages involved? Can it be fixed? -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jaye:-} M.J. Inabnit, KE6SLS e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707-442-6579 h/m 707-441-7096 p http://www.qsl.net/ke6slsICQ# 12741145 This mail composed with kmail on kde on X on linux warped by debian If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid.
Re: new perl dependencies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Zimmerman) wrote:
When I run dselect last night, there was a bunch of important packages
that had been upgraded. One of them was perl-5.005-doc.
I accepted all the suggestions, but when I was ready to exit selection
mode and start downloading, I was thrown into a conflict/dependency
screen with just perl-5.005 and perl-5.005-doc. And no matter what I
did, dselect threw me into that screen again and again. I had to
force my way out with an `x'.
Everything seems to run for the moment, but I am shaken. Is this some
kind of circular dependency among the packages involved? Can it be
fixed?
This is caused by versioned dependencies. The situation is as follows:
perl-5.005-doc (5.005.03-7.1) recommends perl-5.005 (= 5.005.03-7.1)
perl-5.005 (5.005.03-7) suggests perl-5.005-doc (= 5.005.03-7)
In this situation, neither relationship can be satisfied, and dselect
gets rather confused. This sort of thing happens when FTP mirrors get
out of sync with each other, or when not all of a set of related
packages get moved from incoming into the archive at the same time. It's
particularly common when two packages are required to be at the same
version as each other. The best solution is usually to put the offending
packages on hold ('=' in dselect) and wait for a future update to sort
out the problem.
--
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new perl dependencies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran into same problem last night during up update. Running potato now and so I figured I would update a few times a week. Last night, it was KDE for me. one screen then back to dependency back and fourth. Finally, I used the Q to force it and it worked. Don't know much about dselect, so I hope I didn't break anything in the process. Good luck! Q is there for when the dependencies are genuinely wrong and you want to install the package anyway, but are willing to accept any breakage that may occur. When two packages are just a bit out of sync (as is the case here), putting them on hold is usually neater. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
new perl dependencies
When I run dselect last night, there was a bunch of important packages that had been upgraded. One of them was perl-5.005-doc. I accepted all the suggestions, but when I was ready to exit selection mode and start downloading, I was thrown into a conflict/dependency screen with just perl-5.005 and perl-5.005-doc. And no matter what I did, dselect threw me into that screen again and again. I had to force my way out with an `x'. Everything seems to run for the moment, but I am shaken. Is this some kind of circular dependency among the packages involved? Can it be fixed? -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107
Re: new perl dependencies
Ian Zimmerman wrote: When I run dselect last night, there was a bunch of important packages that had been upgraded. One of them was perl-5.005-doc. I accepted all the suggestions, but when I was ready to exit selection mode and start downloading, I was thrown into a conflict/dependency screen with just perl-5.005 and perl-5.005-doc. And no matter what I did, dselect threw me into that screen again and again. I had to force my way out with an `x'. Everything seems to run for the moment, but I am shaken. Is this some kind of circular dependency among the packages involved? Can it be fixed? I put perl-5.005-doc on hold (use '=') And will wait until it gets fixed. Jonathan
