Package: installation
Severity: important
After installation on a powerpc system (PowerMac Blue&White G3) when aptitude
is run in interactive (curses) mode, told
to do update and finish any pending operations ("g") command, it turns out that
the "hfsutils" and "sudo" packages are
marked for deletion. If aptitude is told to go ahead (a second "g" command) it
will delete them. This has bad effects
on the health of the system.
*) hfsutils is used by ybin to setup the boot partition on Macs. Without it, I
can't use ybin to change bootstrap
parameters.
*) sudo is needed if I choose "no root login" at installation time (which I
usually do). Without it I can't do system
administration of just about any kind.
Interestingly, non-interactive )commandline) aptitude does not seem to share
this odd proclivity. E.g. "aptitude
install ntp" does not automatically delete hfsutils or sudo.
If it's important (this has been going on for a while, so it's not just a
glitch in the current daily install CDs) this
shows up when installing from [Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official
Snapshot powerpc NETINST Binary-1
20070214-00:13]
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-powerpc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
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