Debian Bug report logs - #7056
dselect: Performance gripe with disk method doing dpkg -iGROEB

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

From: "Carl R. Witty" <cwitty@newtonlabs.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: dpkg 1.4.0.7 : problem with dselect/dpkg package order and dependencies

Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 19:20:34 -0800

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.7

Note: This bug is *not* against dpkg 1.4.0.7; I saw this bug some time
ago but did not report it then.  (Sorry!)  

When I was installing a new system, I wanted to install gv and
gs-aladdin.  Using dselect (with the nfs access method), I selected
both of these packages (along with many others), and told it to
"Install".  dselect ran dpkg on the "stable" directory; when it tried
to configure gv, it failed, because one of its dependencies was
missing.  This made dpkg return an error code to dselect, which
(therefore) did not run dpkg on the "non-free" directory to install
gs-aladdin.  I had to install gs-aladdin by hand to continue.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 1.2
Kernel Version: Linux bogomips 2.0.27 #2 Fri Jan 24 02:28:34 PST 1997 i686

Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
libc5	Version: 5.4.20-1
ncurses3.0	Version: 1.9.9e-1

Message #10 received at 7056@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>

To: "Carl R. Witty" <cwitty@newtonlabs.com>, 7056@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#7056: dpkg 1.4.0.7 : problem with dselect/dpkg package order and dependencies

Date: Fri, 15 Aug 97 19:29 BST

Carl R. Witty writes ("Bug#7056: dpkg 1.4.0.7 : problem with dselect/dpkg package order and dependencies"):
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.4.0.7
> 
> Note: This bug is *not* against dpkg 1.4.0.7; I saw this bug some time
> ago but did not report it then.  (Sorry!)  
> 
> When I was installing a new system, I wanted to install gv and
> gs-aladdin.  Using dselect (with the nfs access method), I selected
> both of these packages (along with many others), and told it to
> "Install".  dselect ran dpkg on the "stable" directory; when it tried
> to configure gv, it failed, because one of its dependencies was
> missing.  This made dpkg return an error code to dselect, which
> (therefore) did not run dpkg on the "non-free" directory to install
> gs-aladdin.  I had to install gs-aladdin by hand to continue.

Sorry about the timewarp reply to this bug report.  Were you using
dpkg-ftp ?

Ian.

Message #15 received at 7056@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: cwitty@newtonlabs.com (Carl R. Witty)

To: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>

Cc: "Carl R. Witty" <cwitty@newtonlabs.com>, 7056@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#7056: dpkg 1.4.0.7 : problem with dselect/dpkg package order and dependencies

Date: 11 Sep 1997 21:42:11 -0700

Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> Carl R. Witty writes ("Bug#7056: dpkg 1.4.0.7 : problem with dselect/dpkg package order and dependencies"):
> > Package: dpkg
> > Version: 1.4.0.7
> > 
> > Note: This bug is *not* against dpkg 1.4.0.7; I saw this bug some time
> > ago but did not report it then.  (Sorry!)  
> > 
> > When I was installing a new system, I wanted to install gv and
> > gs-aladdin.  Using dselect (with the nfs access method), I selected
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > both of these packages (along with many others), and told it to
> > "Install".  dselect ran dpkg on the "stable" directory; when it tried
> > to configure gv, it failed, because one of its dependencies was
> > missing.  This made dpkg return an error code to dselect, which
> > (therefore) did not run dpkg on the "non-free" directory to install
> > gs-aladdin.  I had to install gs-aladdin by hand to continue.
> 
> Sorry about the timewarp reply to this bug report.  Were you using
> dpkg-ftp ?

Sorry about the timewarp reply to this question :-)

No; as noted above, I was using NFS.

Carl Witty
cwitty@newtonlabs.com

Message #20 received at 7056-maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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

To: 7056-maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Old bugs need to be looked at

Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:30:38 +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

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