Kim Holburn wrote: []
$ dpkg -l type1inst
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============- ============================================
ii type1inst 0.6.1-3 Type 1 PostScript font installation utility
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Password:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/28.4kB of archives. After unpacking 96.5MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 9558 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace type1inst 0.6.1-3 (using .../type1inst_0.6.1-3_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
I have no idea how to debug this, I just want to say that this is a general bug in apt-get that has been observed (but not yet understood) a couple of times: apt-get insists for unknown reasons to install some packages that are already installed. In the cases where I observed it, it stopped after one round, i.e. after it had its will, it didn't do it any more.
Alex, if you want to see this phenomenon, just run "apt-get update" and "apt-get dist-upgrade -u". If you have, like me, a reasonably up-to-date list of packages installed from the unstable tree, apt-get should not propose to install *one single package*, because all versions in the binary distribution are the same or older than what is already installed. In my case, it proposes to upgrade 96 (!) packages, although "fink list -o" shows that none of them is outdated. Looking at the list of 96 packages, I don't see any pattern yet.
-- Martin
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