On Apr 23, 2004, at 2:29 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
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 packages, although "fink list -o" shows that none of them is outdated.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
Now that you mention it, I have seen it on my system, too, but didn't think anything of it (since I use apt-get so rarely on this machine). I just tried it again, and apt-get downloaded and installed 117 packages (luckily not tetex-texmf, and my xfree86 is only in unstable, or I'd be here all day waiting for everything to unpack). Then it made me do another 37 packages, but after that, nothing more got downloaded/installed.
-- Alexander Hansen Fink Documentarian [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
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