On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 09:24:03AM +0200, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Package: aptitude > Version: 0.4.11.1-1 > Severity: important > > Today's "aptitude safe-upgrade" failed, apparently aptitude gets into an > endless loop resolving the dependencies:
I was wondering if this would bite anyone but me. It's not actually an infinite loop. Since I'm *sure* you care, the problem is that the mechanism safe-upgrade uses to ensure that it consistently moves towards a solution is broken: it asks the resolver to refuse solutions that don't install particular packages, but the resolver then decides that it's ok to ignore recommends of those packages. So you end up searching the whole power set of the set of unresolved recommendations. If you let it run for a weekend it might finish. :-) The good news is that this is fixed in mercurial head and will be in the next aptitude upload. The workaround is to use "full-upgrade" when this happens, or to use the curses interface. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
