Debian Bug report logs - #6039
dselect: Performance gripe with disk method doing dpkg -iGROEB

Package: dselect; Maintainer for dselect is Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>; Source for dselect is src:dpkg (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Jochen Theis <J.Theis@pmms.cam.ac.uk>

Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 13:03:10 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 4448, 7056, 7181, 8340, 10520, 11800, 12667

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
Bug#6039; Package dpkg. (full text, mbox, link).


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

From: Jochen Theis <J.Theis@pmms.cam.ac.uk>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: dpgk does not resolve all dependencies correctly
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 96 12:49 GMT
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.5.

I just installed Debian 1.2 using 'dselect' on a copy of the Debian
distribution tree on a mounted partition of my hard drive. I had
problems with some packages, because although 'dselect' recognises
dependencies between packages, it does not install and configure
packages that others depend on before these are installed. For
example, I tried to install the package 'dwww', and dselect told me to
install a WWW server and a browser as well. I chose 'apache' as WWW
server. When the installation got to 'dwww' it reported that 'apache'
had not been installed (or at least not configured) and did not
install properly. I solved the problem by removing both packages, then
installing just 'apache' and then 'dwww', but I think 'dselect' should
do these things by itself.

I run Debian 1.2 with a custom kernel version 2.0.27 and libc version
5.4.13.




Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
Bug#6039; Package dpkg. (full text, mbox, link).


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Message #10 received at 6039@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>
To: 6039@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#6039: dpgk does not resolve all dependencies correctly
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:40:05 +0200
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Jochen Theis:
> When the installation got to 'dwww' it reported that 'apache'
> had not been installed (or at least not configured) 

That might be a problem with dwww, however. dwww is not very good
at interacting with apache, since I never did get apache to install.
(I wrote dwww, though it's now maintained by Jim Pick.)

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Bug#6039; Package dpkg. (full text, mbox, link).


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Message #15 received at 6039-maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl (Remco Blaakmeer)
To: 6039-maintonly@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Old bugs need to be looked at
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:27:26 +0100 (CET)
This is an automated message sent to all bugs older than one year.

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.

If you have problems fixing it or if you don't have the time to fix it,
please ask the people on debian-devel@lists.debian.org for help, so that
at least the oldest bugs can be solved before Debian 2.0 is released.

Remco Blaakmeer


Changed Bug title. Request was from Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Bug reassigned from package `dpkg' to `dselect'. Request was from Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Dpkg Development <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>:
Bug#6039; Package dselect. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>:
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Message #24 received at 6039@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>
To: 6039@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Isn't this fixed by the existence of apt?
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:32:30 -0500
I believe that the ancient bug 6039 
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=6039) against dselect 
is fixed by the existence of the 'apt' backend to dselect, which 
apparently does everything the submitter wanted it to.  :-)

Could someone please confirm that this is fixed, and close the bug if it is?




Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Dpkg Development <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>:
Bug#6039; Package dselect. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Josip Rodin <joy@srce.hr>:
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Message #29 received at 6039@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Josip Rodin <joy@srce.hr>
To: Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>, 6039@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#6039: Isn't this fixed by the existence of apt?
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 18:58:35 +0100
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 02:32:30PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> I believe that the ancient bug 6039 
> (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=6039) against dselect 
> is fixed by the existence of the 'apt' backend to dselect, which 
> apparently does everything the submitter wanted it to.  :-)
> 
> Could someone please confirm that this is fixed, and close the bug if it is?

It's still an intrinsic bug in dselect.

Aside from APT, IIRC there was a package called pkg-order that had code for
ordering, though it got removed at some point.

-- 
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Forcibly Merged 4448 6039 7056 7181 8340 10520 11800 12667. Request was from Bruce Sass <bmsass@shaw.ca> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Changed Bug title to 'dselect: Performance gripe with disk method doing dpkg -iGROEB' from 'does not install and configure packages that others depend on before these are installed'. Request was from Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Mon, 04 Mar 2019 21:45:18 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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