Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.9 Severity: normal Dear Maintainers,
I recently noticed that the workflow to install in a basic box the list of extra packages present in other more complete box seems to no longer work full-box# dpkg --get-selections > desired-selections.txt basic-box# dpkg --get-selections < desired-selections.txt basic-box# apt-get upgrade This is better seen in a chroot with following sequence # debootstrap sid mychroot http://http.debian.net/debian # chroot mychroot In the chroot: mychroot# apt-get update mychroot# echo "joe install" | dpkg --set-selections ... dpkg: warning: package not in database at line 1: joe mychroot# apt-get upgrade ... 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. mychroot# dpkg --get-selections | grep joe Selection seems lost. Trying with apt-get dselect-upgrade does not help mychroot# apt-get install dselect mychroot# apt-get dselect-upgrade ... 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. mychroot# dselect update mychroot# apt-get dselect-upgrade ... 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Only if I set selections again after "dselect update" things work (althouch only for "apt-get dselect-upgrade"). After previous commands mychroot# echo "joe install" | dpkg --set-selections mychroot# apt-get upgrade ... 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. mychroot# apt-get dselect-upgrade ... 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. ... Setting up joe (3.7-2.3) ... -------------------- Seems that dpkg ignores setting values for packages that were never installed or removed in the system, although they are available and can be retrieved with apt-get. I guess "dselect update" adds apropriate entries to database that can later be set. IIRC this workflow is described in a number of places to clone a system, so behavior should be fixed or clarified. If this change is intentional, some comment should be added to dpkg man page or to README file. Regards, -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=es_ES.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-4 ii libc6 2.13-38 ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2 ii libselinux1 2.1.9-5 ii tar 1.26+dfsg-0.1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 0.9.7.8 -- no debconf information -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
