Bug#64141: apt-get wants to install a dependent package for something on hold
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Version: 0.3.18
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I put sendmail on hold since I question the advisability of having Beta
software handle my mail. I also notice that sendmail now depends on
sfio1999.
# echo -e 'sendmail\thold' | dpkg --set-selections.
I do an apt-get -s dist-upgrade to see what's left. Hmm. Interesting.
It's still trying to install sfio99. I install the various upgraded
packages to see if any of them needed sfio1999 (there were only 6).
They don't.
So, I get the following display:
# apt-get -s dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
sfio1999
The following packages have been kept back
apache-common libgd-graph-perl rmagic sendmail
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Inst sfio1999 [shellutils on hurd]
Conf sfio1999
It seems inadvisable to install a new package for something on hold...
Here's the what sendmail depends on:
# apt-cache depends sendmail | grep Depends:
Depends: libc6
Depends: libdb2
Depends: libopenldap1
Depends: libpam0g
Depends: libsasl7
Depends: libssl09
Depends: libwrap0
Depends: sfio1999
Depends: m4
Depends: <awk>
|Depends: procmail
Depends: deliver
Darren
- -- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux trisul 2.2.15pre17 #1 Thu Apr 6 05:51:10 PDT 2000 i586
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.3-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10 1:2.95.2-9 The GNU stdc++ library
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