[R-sig-Debian] stable backport apt problem (solved)
Dirk Eddelbuettel
edd at debian.org
Tue May 2 19:58:16 CEST 2006
Hi Robert,
On 2 May 2006 at 10:03, Robert King wrote:
| Hello,
|
| I started writing this email to describe a problem, then fixed it, so
| I'll display my ignorance anyway in case other people have a problem
| with it.
|
| What happened was that I could get apt-get to upgrade the documentation
| packages, but not the others.
|
| What I think was the problem was some remaining r-cran-* packages that
| are now in r-recommended. These seemed to be blocking the upgrade of
| r-recommended, and hence r-base-core and thus r-base.
|
| What I did was manually download r-base-core r-base-dev and
| r-recommended and install the .debs with dpkg.
Hm, sounds like Christian's backported packages need some more finetuning on
the Depends/Provides/Conflicts.
The more detail you could supply as to "what was blocked how" would
presumably help.
Dirk
| Once this was done apt-get was able to fix the mess.
|
| Here is some of the output I collected in the process.
|
| This is the result of dpkg -l r-\* after the apt-get upgrade, which kept
| back r-base r-base-dev r-base-core r-recommended
|
|
| +++-==============-==============-============================================
| ii r-base 2.1.0-1 GNU R statistical computing language
| and env
| ii r-base-core 2.1.0-1 GNU R core of statistical computing
| language
| ii r-base-dev 2.1.0-1 GNU R installation of auxiliary GNU R
| packag
| ii r-base-html 2.3.0-0sarge1 GNU R html docs for statistical
| computing sy
| ii r-base-latex 2.3.0-0sarge1 GNU R LaTeX docs for statistical
| computing s
|
| [ some r-cran-* packages deleted ]
|
| un r-doc-html <none> (no description available)
| un r-doc-info <none> (no description available)
| un r-doc-pdf <none> (no description available)
| ii r-mathlib 2.1.0-1 GNU R standalone mathematics library
| ii r-recommended 2.1.0-1 GNU R collection of recommended
|
| This is more sources.list
|
| tolstoy:/etc/apt# cat sources.list
| deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
| deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
| deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
|
| deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
|
| #cran backports
| deb http://cran.au.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/ stable/
|
| tolstoy:/etc/apt# apt-get install r-base-core=2.3.0-0sarge1
| Reading Package Lists... Done
| Building Dependency Tree... Done
| E: Version '2.3.0-0sarge1' for 'r-base-core' was not found
|
| tolstoy:~# wget
| http://cran.au.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/stable/r-base-core_2.3.0-0sarge1_i386.deb
| --02:19:54--
| http://cran.au.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/stable/r-base-core_2.3.0-0sarge1_i386.deb
| => `r-base-core_2.3.0-0sarge1_i386.deb'
| Resolving proxy.newcastle.edu.au... 134.148.172.1, 134.148.20.65
| Connecting to proxy.newcastle.edu.au[134.148.172.1]:8080... connected.
| Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
| Length: 8,315,512 [application/x-debian-package]
|
| 100%[====================================>] 8,315,512 1.03M/s
| ETA 00:00
|
| 02:20:02 (1.02 MB/s) - `r-base-core_2.3.0-0sarge1_i386.deb' saved
| [8315512/8315512]
|
| tolstoy:~# dpkg -i r-base-core_2.3.0-0sarge1_i386.deb
| (Reading database ... 64541 files and directories currently installed.)
| Preparing to replace r-base-core 2.1.0-1 (using
| r-base-core_2.3.0-0sarge1_i386.deb) ...
| Unpacking replacement r-base-core ...
| Setting up r-base-core (2.3.0-0sarge1) ...
|
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