On 2008-03-20 09:48 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: >> This is not a bug in aptitude. Upgrading apt removes the old library >> that aptitude links against, and until the new aptitude is installed >> there's no way it will be able to link. Vice versa (and what's indicated >> above), upgrading aptitude causes it to link against a new apt library, >> and it won't work until the new version of apt is installed. > > Daniel, the new aptitude will only be unpacked after the new apt > has been unpacked. So there's no "dpkg" bug either AFAIK.
This is not guaranteed. In fact, the dpkg log of the update from apt 0.7.9 to 0.7.10 (the last one with an ABI bump) shows otherwise, apt's reverse dependencies were unpacked _before_ it: ,---- | 2008-01-10 16:54:01 upgrade libapt-pkg-dev 0.7.9 0.7.10 | 2008-01-10 16:54:01 status half-configured libapt-pkg-dev 0.7.9 | 2008-01-10 16:54:01 status unpacked libapt-pkg-dev 0.7.9 | 2008-01-10 16:54:01 status half-installed libapt-pkg-dev 0.7.9 | 2008-01-10 16:54:02 status half-installed libapt-pkg-dev 0.7.9 | 2008-01-10 16:54:02 status unpacked libapt-pkg-dev 0.7.10 | 2008-01-10 16:54:02 status unpacked libapt-pkg-dev 0.7.10 | 2008-01-10 16:54:02 upgrade apt-utils 0.7.9 0.7.10 | 2008-01-10 16:54:02 status half-configured apt-utils 0.7.9 | 2008-01-10 16:54:02 status unpacked apt-utils 0.7.9 | 2008-01-10 16:54:02 status half-installed apt-utils 0.7.9 | 2008-01-10 16:54:02 status half-installed apt-utils 0.7.9 | 2008-01-10 16:54:02 status unpacked apt-utils 0.7.10 | 2008-01-10 16:54:02 status unpacked apt-utils 0.7.10 | 2008-01-10 16:54:02 upgrade aptitude 0.4.10-1+b1 0.4.10-1+b2 | 2008-01-10 16:54:02 status half-configured aptitude 0.4.10-1+b1 | 2008-01-10 16:54:02 status unpacked aptitude 0.4.10-1+b1 | 2008-01-10 16:54:02 status half-installed aptitude 0.4.10-1+b1 | 2008-01-10 16:54:04 status half-installed aptitude 0.4.10-1+b1 | 2008-01-10 16:54:04 status unpacked aptitude 0.4.10-1+b2 | 2008-01-10 16:54:04 status unpacked aptitude 0.4.10-1+b2 | 2008-01-10 16:54:04 upgrade apt 0.7.9 0.7.10 | 2008-01-10 16:54:04 status half-configured apt 0.7.9 | 2008-01-10 16:54:04 status unpacked apt 0.7.9 | 2008-01-10 16:54:04 status half-installed apt 0.7.9 | 2008-01-10 16:54:05 status half-installed apt 0.7.9 | 2008-01-10 16:54:05 status unpacked apt 0.7.10 | 2008-01-10 16:54:05 status unpacked apt 0.7.10 | 2008-01-10 16:54:08 status unpacked apt 0.7.10 | 2008-01-10 16:54:08 status unpacked apt 0.7.10 | 2008-01-10 16:54:08 status unpacked apt 0.7.10 | 2008-01-10 16:54:08 status unpacked apt 0.7.10 | 2008-01-10 16:54:08 status half-configured apt 0.7.10 | 2008-01-10 16:54:09 status installed apt 0.7.10 `---- Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
