On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 13:17, Andreas Wüst wrote: > > >>>> Sorry, I didn't get this one! I thought, deps would be handled > >>>> automatically?? If I tell it, for instance, to apt-get -u -t > >>>> unstable > >>>> install openoffice.org, apt-get tells me that libc6 etc. (of which I > >>>> obviously have already an older, i.e. woody, version installed) will > >>>> be > >>>> upgraded. So, why does it not do that when trying to install > >>>> gnome-session? > >>> > >>> Hmm. Did you maybe pin xlibs to the older version before with > >>> something > >>> like xlibs=4.1.0-16 or xlibs/stable? > >> > >> No. There is no /etc/apt/preferences at all. > > > > Here neither, pinning with <package>=<version> or <package>/<release> > > is independent from that. > > Huh? But, how do I do that
apt-get install xlibs=4.1.0-16 or apt-get install xlibs/unstable (same with aptitude) > and were does this get saved? No idea, I wonder myself. :) > > Another possibility is that other packages somehow prevent apt from > > upgrading xlibs automatically. If you add it to the install line, does > > it cause other packages to be upgraded additionally as well? > > Add to which install line? The one with gnome-session? Yes. I asked about this earlier in this thread, and you said it worked... > Since install gnome-session doesn't work out and simply quits with > "E: Sorry, broken packages", it won't give me any packages which are > to be upgraded. It does that by default, the idea is to track down the problem by adding packages it complains about to the install line. The thing is, I can still only speculate about what you're trying to do and what happens... > > Yet another possibility is simply an apt bug I guess. :) Have you tried > > apt from sid yet? > > No, because it's not how I'd like my systems to work. I want to have > the system tools from stable whilst not so crucial software from sid > (like xfree86, gnome, etc.). Otherwise, I could do a dist-upgrade and > not mind running a mixed system. True, still apt in sid is much better in general... -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer