frozen libc6 wierdness
Hello List.
In August of 1999 I installed slink on two computers, and promptly
moved to unstable. The day the freeze was announced, I changed my
/etc/apt/sources.list to point to frozen instead of unstable -- and in
the last week or so the following problem popped up on both of my
computers, which I think is worthy of Being Looked At. Perhaps the
best way of describing is simply some output from my machine.
(As for the locales, I don't currently know how to check if removing
gconv-modules will break anything else -- PEBCAK on this item,
perhaps, but it might be useful to someone all the same. :)
In any event, I rather like many of the packages apt suggested
uninstalling, so I am not sure upgrading is really the right thing to
do, but releasing potato in a state where the newest libc6 libraries
conflict with so many useful packages, it just seems wrong.
So, I am hoping something is wrong on my end of things. If not, then,
perhaps someone can sort it out before release. :)
If anyone wishes more feedback from me, please CC: me as well;
following the mailing lists almost helped me flunk out a little while
back... :)
Thanks. :)
Script started on Tue Feb 1 21:42:47 2000
amidala:/home/sarnold/cs451# apt-get -q -u upgrade
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following packages have been kept back
libc6 libc6-dev libnss1-compat locales
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
amidala:/home/sarnold/cs451# apt-get -q install libc6
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following extra packages will be installed:
libc6-dev libnss1-compat
The following packages will be REMOVED:
alsaplayer gconv-modules gimp1.1 gimp1.1-nonfree libc6-bin libgimp1.1.10
libgimp1.1.13 libgimp1.1.14 libgimp1.1.15 libgtk-perl libgtk1.2 libgtkmm
nessus wmakerconf xamixer xmms xscreensaver
3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 17 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 3248kB of archives. After unpacking 25.3MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
amidala:/home/sarnold/cs451# apt-get -q install libc6-dev
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following extra packages will be installed:
libc6 libnss1-compat
The following packages will be REMOVED:
alsaplayer gconv-modules gimp1.1 gimp1.1-nonfree libc6-bin libgimp1.1.10
libgimp1.1.13 libgimp1.1.14 libgimp1.1.15 libgtk-perl libgtk1.2 libgtkmm
nessus wmakerconf xamixer xmms xscreensaver
3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 17 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 3248kB of archives. After unpacking 25.3MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
amidala:/home/sarnold/cs451# apt-get -q install libnss1-compat
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following extra packages will be installed:
libc6 libc6-dev
The following packages will be REMOVED:
alsaplayer gconv-modules gimp1.1 gimp1.1-nonfree libc6-bin libgimp1.1.10
libgimp1.1.13 libgimp1.1.14 libgimp1.1.15 libgtk-perl libgtk1.2 libgtkmm
nessus wmakerconf xamixer xmms xscreensaver
3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 17 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 3248kB of archives. After unpacking 25.3MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
amidala:/home/sarnold/cs451# apt-get install -q locales
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gconv-modules
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 1988kB of archives. After unpacking 2548kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
amidala:/home/sarnold/cs451# dpkg --status libc6
Package: libc6
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: base
Installed-Size: 3389
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
Source: glibc
Version: 2.1.2-11
Replaces: libc6-dev (<< 2.0.110-1), locales (<< 2.1.1-1)
Pre-Depends: ldso (>= 1.9.11-2.1)
Recommends: gconv-modules, locales, libc6-bin
Suggests: nscd, glibc-doc
Conflicts: libc5 (<< 5.4.33-7), libpthread0 (<< 0.7-10), libstdc++2.8 (= 2.90.29-1), libstdc++2.9 (<< 2.91.59-2), timezone, timezones, libwcsmbs, libc6-doc, libtricks, apt (<< 0.3.0), libglib1.2 (<< 1.2.1-2)
Description: GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data
Contains the standard libraries that are used by nearly all programs on
the system. This package includes shared versions of the standard C library
and the standard math library, as well as many others.
Timezone data is also included.
amidala:/home/sarnold/cs451# dpkg --status libc6-dev
Package: libc6-dev
Status: install ok installed
Priority: standard
Section: devel
Installed-Size: 8162
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
Source: glibc
Version: 2.1.2-11
Replaces: ldso (<< 1.9.0-0), man-db (<= 2.3.10-41), gettext (<= 0.10.26-1), ppp (<= 2.2.0f-24), libgdbmg1-dev (<= 1.7.3-24)
Provides: libc-dev
Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.2-11)
Recommends: c-compiler
Suggests: glibc-doc
Conflicts: libc-dev, libstdc++2.9-dev, libdl1-dev, libdb1-dev, libgdbm1-dev, libpthread0-dev, gcc (<= 2.7.2.3-1), libncurses4-dev (<< 4.2-3.1), libreadlineg2-dev (<< 2.1-13.1)
Description: GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Header Files.
Contains the symlinks, headers, and object files needed to compile
and link programs which use the standard C library.
amidala:/home/sarnold/cs451# dpkg --status libnss1-compat
Package: libnss1-compat
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: oldlibs
Installed-Size: 129
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
Source: glibc
Version: 2.1.2-11
Replaces: libc6 (<< 2.1.2-11)
Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.2-11)
Description: GNU C Library: Name Service Switch version 1 compatibility
Contains /lib/libnss1_* for backward compatibility with binaries statically
linked with previous releases of the GNU C Library version 2.
.
Unless you have old statically linked binaries you've compiled yourself,
it is unlikely that you need this package.
amidala:/home/sarnold/cs451# dpkg --status locales
Package: locales
Status: install ok installed
Priority: standard
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 3878
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
Source: glibc
Version: 2.1.2-11.0.1
Replaces: localebin, wg15-locale
Recommends: gconv-modules
Conflicts: localebin, wg15-locale
Conffiles:
/etc/locale.alias f5750023880cddc95bbc52e8d753559b
Description: GNU C Library: National Language (locale) data [binary]
Machine-readable data files used by the C library
for localization and internationalization support.
.
This package contains compiled locales. The uncompiled source data
is in the `i18ndata' package.
amidala:/home/sarnold/cs451#
Script done on Tue Feb 1 21:44:12 2000
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