Debian Bug report logs - #4379
dselect insists on wrong installation order

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Anton Rebhan <rebhana@tph16.tuwien.ac.at>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: dselect insists on wrong installation order

Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 17:30:30 +0200

Package: dselect
Version: 1.2.12 (a.out) and 1.2.11elf

In upgrading from 0.93R6 to 1.1 I had the following problem running
dselect: The installation of perl failed because libgdbm was not
installed,
although the latter was selected. Instead of proceeding with the
installation,
which would obviously have solved the problem in a second run, it
terminated.
Only after stepping out and installing libgdbm by dpkg -iB by hand could
I
resume the installation by dselect. Fortunately, there was no similar
problem
with the other packages.
The very same problem but with different packages (sorry, I forgot
which),
happened recently by making a fresh installation on a new computer.
This time, the version of dselect was 1.2.11elf. Again, I solved the
problem by dpkg -iB on the missing package which was selected but not
processed because the installation stopped prematurely. (Rerunning it
stopped always at the same point)

I guess that a quick fix would be to let the installation proceed and
to ask for a further run at the end.

-- 
Univ.-Doz. Dr. Anton Rebhan
Inst. f. Theoret. Physik, Techn. Univ. Wien
Wiedner Hauptstr. 8-10/136
A-1040 Vienna, Austria
Tel: +43-1-58801-5695
Fax: +43-1-5867760

Message #12 received at 4379-maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl (Remco Blaakmeer)

To: 4379-maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Old bugs need to be looked at

Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:01:07 +0100 (CET)

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This bug is very old. Please take a look at it and see if you can fix it.
If it has already been fixed, please close it.

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