Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem



Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:18:22AM +0100, Flo <debianflo@xxxxxx> was heard to say:
Hi,

I think I am running into a serious upgrade problem.

I am running debian testing and I did the following:

aptitude update
aptitude -d upgrade

Now I have downloaded the packages but instead of saying 'aptitude
upgrade' to finish the upgrade I did:

aptitude update
aptitude upgrade

In the meantime I got another package to install but all previously
downloaded packages are marked to be uptodate but they are not.

If I understand correctly: you mean that aptitude doesn't even
attempt to upgrade them?


Yes, this is the case now. It wanted to do that *before* the second update. But I made the second update instead to get all uptodate packages. The reason was I initiated the first upgrade (download only) and came back half day later.

Could you post the complete output of "aptitude upgrade"? Also,
could you post the output of "dpkg -s PACKAGE", "aptitude show PACKAGE",
and "apt-cache policy PACKAGE" for one of the packages that should be
upgraded?


# aptitude upgrade
W: The "upgrade" command is deprecated; use "safe-upgrade" instead.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done

# dpkg -s texlive-doc-base
Package: texlive-doc-base
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: tex
Installed-Size: 1216
Maintainer: Debian TeX Maintainers <debian-tex-maint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Architecture: all
Source: texlive-doc
Version: 2007.dfsg.1-1
Depends: texlive-common (>= 2007)
Description: TeX Live: Base documentation
Basic documentation
.
This package includes the following CTAN packages:
texlive-en -- The texlive-en package.
Homepage: http://www.tug.org/texlive

# aptitude show texlive-doc-base
Package: texlive-doc-base
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 2007.dfsg.1-1
Priority: optional
Section: tex
Maintainer: Debian TeX Maintainers <debian-tex-maint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Uncompressed Size: 1245k
Depends: texlive-common (>= 2007)
Description: TeX Live: Base documentation
Basic documentation

This package includes the following CTAN packages:
texlive-en -- The texlive-en package.
Homepage: http://www.tug.org/texlive

# apt-cache policy texlive-doc-base
texlive-doc-base:
Installed: 2007.dfsg.1-1
Candidate: 2007.dfsg.1-1
Version table:
*** 2007.dfsg.1-1 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2005.dfsg.2-1 0
500 ftp://ftp.at.debian.org stable/main Packages

It looks like being installed but it isn't.

Thank you for your help.

Flo.


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