Re: Increasing number of conflicts

Hi, Alexander: On Monday 19 April 2010 15:16:02 B. Alexander wrote: > I've got an issue with a sid box that I have been maintaining for a while. > This is my workstation, and I have noticed a growing number of broken > packages, unmet dependencies and conflicts. I have been using safe-upgrade > fo

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

On Friday 30 April 2010 11:30:56 Preston Boyington wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In my case you probably wouldn't. Mixed Lenny+security+volatile/lenny- > > backports/testing+volatile/Sid/experimental systems with > > debian-multimedia added in don't fall on your support list do they?

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In my case you probably wouldn't. Mixed Lenny+security+volatile/lenny- backports/testing+volatile/Sid/experimental systems with debian-multimedia added in don't fall on your support list do they? ;) I thought this was normal... :D -- Arrant Drivel - really, i

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

On Friday 30 April 2010 09:44:16 Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 02:54:20PM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > > If (c), aptitude will usually churn until it's solver exhausts all > > available memory and it either dies, or is killed by the OMM-killer in > > the k

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 02:54:20PM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > If (c), aptitude will usually churn until it's solver exhausts all available > memory and it either dies, or is killed by the OMM-killer in the kernel. You > can 'Ctrl+C' to kill aptitude earlier if you wish

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 02:54:20PM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > On Monday 19 April 2010 08:16:02 B. Alexander wrote: > > I've got an issue with a sid box that I have been maintaining for a while. > > This is my workstation, and I have noticed a growing number of broken > >

Re: python-twisted-core not getting updated on i386, but is updated on amd64 [was Re: Increasing number of conflicts]

Hi. Rick Thomas (21/04/2010): > I don't know how this can happen, but it definitely did happen. > Enjoy! The list of Arch: all packages merged into the Packages list for a given architecture depends (!) on the build status of the related Arch: any packages. I can think of the following referenc

Re: python-twisted-core not getting updated on i386, but is updated on amd64 [was Re: Increasing number of conflicts]

On Apr 21, 2010, at 11:41 AM, Tristan Seligmann wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: The reason seems to be that python-twisted-core version 10.0.0-3 is available on amd64 Sid, but on i386 Sid it's only available at version 10.0.0-2 . Maybe it needs to be rebuilt fo

Re: python-twisted-core not getting updated on i386, but is updated on amd64 [was Re: Increasing number of conflicts]

Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 08:58:53AM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 07:41, Rick Thomas wrote: The reason seems to be that python-twisted-core version 10.0.0-3 is available on amd64 Sid, but on i386 Sid it's only available at version 10.0.0-2 . Maybe it need

Re: python-twisted-core not getting updated on i386, but is updated on amd64 [was Re: Increasing number of conflicts]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 08:58:53AM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 07:41, Rick Thomas wrote: > > The reason seems to be that python-twisted-core version 10.0.0-3 is > > available on amd64 Sid, but on i386 Sid it's only available at version > > 10.0.0-2 . > > > > Maybe it needs

Re: python-twisted-core not getting updated on i386, but is updated on amd64 [was Re: Increasing number of conflicts]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > The reason seems to be that python-twisted-core version 10.0.0-3 is > available on amd64 Sid, but on i386 Sid it's only available at version > 10.0.0-2 . > > Maybe it needs to be rebuilt for i386 ? python-twisted-core is an Arch: all package,

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

B. Alexander schreef: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:07 PM, John Hasler > wrote: B. Alexander wrote: > I've got an issue with a sid box that I have been maintaining for a > while. This is my workstation, and I have noticed a growing number of > broken

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:07 PM, John Hasler wrote: > B. Alexander wrote: > > I've got an issue with a sid box that I have been maintaining for a > > while. This is my workstation, and I have noticed a growing number of > > broken packages, unmet dependencies and conflicts. I have been using > >

Re: python-twisted-core not getting updated on i386, but is updated on amd64 [was Re: Increasing number of conflicts]

Hello, On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 07:41, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Apr 20, 2010, at 2:30 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > >> If I was you I would start by finding out why python-twisted-core is not >> getting upgraded to the latest version that's in the repos and so on, with a >> little investigating I'm

python-twisted-core not getting updated on i386, but is updated on amd64 [was Re: Increasing number of conflicts]

On Apr 20, 2010, at 2:30 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: If I was you I would start by finding out why python-twisted-core is not getting upgraded to the latest version that's in the repos and so on, with a little investigating I'm sure you will find what has broken your system, it may help to us

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

B. Alexander wrote: > I've got an issue with a sid box that I have been maintaining for a > while. This is my workstation, and I have noticed a growing number of > broken packages, unmet dependencies and conflicts. I have been using > safe-upgrade for months now, hoping that it would work itself ou

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

On Tue, Apr 20 at 16:19, B. Alexander penned: >It's more of a packaging issue. For instance, there have been >several ABI changes, the most recent of which was the transition >from kde3 to kde4. Packages getting left along the way. > >Another thing is packages whcih seem to have g

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20 at 7:31, B. Alexander penned: > > > >In my case, it appears the root of the problems are caused by > >bitrot. I probably need to come up with some method of rebuilding > >my sid boxes every so often. Prior to

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

On Mon,19.Apr.10, 20:28:16, Joe wrote: > You don't run sid unless you have a sense of humour. That's a good one :) You might want to attach a full name to it, for proper attribution ;) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/ma

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

On Tue, Apr 20 at 7:31, B. Alexander penned: > >In my case, it appears the root of the problems are caused by >bitrot. I probably need to come up with some method of rebuilding >my sid boxes every so often. Prior to this, my rebuilds were done >in 2000 and 2007...Maybe if I am goi

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > B. Alexander wrote: > >> I've got an issue with a sid box that I have been maintaining for a while. >> This is my workstation, and I have noticed a growing number of broken >> packages, unmet dependencies and conflicts. I have been using safe

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

B. Alexander wrote: I've got an issue with a sid box that I have been maintaining for a while. This is my workstation, and I have noticed a growing number of broken packages, unmet dependencies and conflicts. I have been using safe-upgrade for months now, hoping that it would work itself out ov

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: When I do 'aptitude full-upgrade' I get 1 broken package: The following packages are BROKEN: python-twisted-conch and 1 package with unmet dependencies: The following packages have unmet dependencies: python-twisted-conch: Depends: python-twisted-core (>= 10.0.0-3)

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

Mark Allums wrote: I noticed OP's post contained g++. My Sid is also trying to uninstall g++. Without me posting about 8k worth of useless diagnostics, would you happen to know the reason why? I'm not seeing the problem, currently my unstable/testing system is fully up-to-date and nothin

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

On 4/19/2010 8:28 AM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 09:16 -0400, B. Alexander wrote: I've got an issue with a sid box that I have been maintaining for a while. This is my workstation, and I have noticed a growing number of broken packages, unmet dependencies and conflicts. I ha

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

You sent just to me. I'm sending back to the list and CC'ing you. On Monday 19 April 2010 16:27:08 B. Alexander wrote: > Thank you for this. I knew that aptitude had a an ncurses interface, but to > be honest, it looked too similar to dselect, which dredged up some bad > memories from about 10 ye

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

On Monday 19 April 2010 08:16:02 B. Alexander wrote: > I've got an issue with a sid box that I have been maintaining for a while. > This is my workstation, and I have noticed a growing number of broken > packages, unmet dependencies and conflicts. I have been using safe-upgrade > for months now, ho

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

On 19/04/10 15:34, B. Alexander wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Wolodja Wentland< I assume that this will allow aptitude to take actions which are more to your liking as you obviously don't like the ones proposed by aptitude when you run safe-upgrade. safe-upgrade just does the upgra

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

B. Alexander wrote: I've got an issue with a sid box that I have been maintaining for a while. This is my workstation, and I have noticed a growing number of broken packages, unmet dependencies and conflicts. I have been using safe-upgrade for months now, hoping that it would work itself out ov

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Wolodja Wentland < wentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 09:16 -0400, B. Alexander wrote: > > I've got an issue with a sid box that I have been maintaining for a > while. This > > is my workstation, and I have noticed a growing number of b

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 09:16 -0400, B. Alexander wrote: > I've got an issue with a sid box that I have been maintaining for a while. > This > is my workstation, and I have noticed a growing number of broken packages, > unmet dependencies and conflicts. I have been using safe-upgrade for months >

Increasing number of conflicts

I've got an issue with a sid box that I have been maintaining for a while. This is my workstation, and I have noticed a growing number of broken packages, unmet dependencies and conflicts. I have been using safe-upgrade for months now, hoping that it would work itself out over time. However, this h