On Monday 11 April 2005 09:43 am, Ricardo Galli wrote:
> This happens in last version, it did not happen few weeks ago.

  The changes from the last version are:

    - Translation updates
    - Trivial fix for a UI layout problem
    - Correction to the documentation
    - Backport support for apt 0.6 (disabled by default)

  None of these should in any way affect how dependencies are resolved, so I 
think we need to look elsewhere for the problem.  On the other hand, there 
*has* been a new nvidia-glx release in the last few weeks, and that could 
have triggered something.

> I have proprietary nvidia drivers compiled as module, but nevertheless
> aptitude wants to install me a kernel-image:
>
> # aptitude -vD dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
>   cramfsprogs (D: initrd-tools, R: cramfsprogs)
>   initrd-tools (D: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386)
>   kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 (R: nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2-386)
>   nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2-386 (D: nvidia-glx)
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   cramfsprogs initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386
>   nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2-386
> ...

  Were more packages being installed or upgraded?  I think that it should be 
upgrading nvidia-glx, for instance.

> As you can see, it does so because nvidia-glx depends on
> "nvidia-kernel-1.0.7174":

  Unfortunately, those markers are not always accurate.  I'd go as far as to 
say that sometimes they're downright misleading.  As you point out below, 
this can't possibly be correct.

  I think I'll need more information to figure out what's happening.  Could 
you tell me, for starters:

  - what "apt-cache showpkg nvidia-kernel-2.4.27-2-386" and
         "apt-cache showpkg nvidia-kernel-1.0.7174" print

  - what "apt-cache showpkg nvidia-glx" prints

  - If you go into aptitude (visual mode) and press "U" (capital "u"), are 
packages broken?

  Daniel

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