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From: rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu (Raul Miller)
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Here's a screen from dselect:
dselect - main package listing (by priority) +/-=select v=verbose ?=help
HIOS Pri Section Package Description
----- All Standard packages in section editors -----
-** Std editors emacs The GNU Emacs editor.
-- Std editors emacs-nox GNU Emacs binary (without X11 support).
__ Std editors emacs-x GNU Emacs binary (with X11 support).
----- All Standard packages in section mail -----
*** Std mail biff A simple mail notification tool
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*** Std mail mh MH is a set of electronic mail handling programs. Unlike
*** Std mail procmail Versatile e-mail processor.
emacs removed (configs remain); selected (was: selected). Standard
emacs - The GNU Emacs editor.
GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor.
description of emacs
Here's from the dpkg run immediately preceeding generation of this display:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hyperlatex:
hyperlatex depends on emacs; however:
Package emacs is not installed.
dpkg: error processing hyperlatex (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of psnfss:
psnfss depends on texpsfnt; however:
Package texpsfnt is not installed.
dpkg: error processing psnfss (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
/disk/debian/debian-0.93/binary/x11/xbase-3.1.2-4.deb
ax25-util
tin
hyperlatex
psnfss
installation script returned error exit status 1.
Press RETURN to continue.
I think it's strange that dselect presumes that emacs is installed, when in fact it is not.
[As an aside, to attempt to fix this problem, I de-selected emacs, removed it, then re-selected
emacs to attempt to force its installation. This didn't change anything.]
Then again, maybe this isn't a problem with dselect, here's what dpkg --status emacs has to say:
Package: emacs
Status: install ok config-files
Priority: standard
Section: editors
Maintainer: Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.org>
Version: 19.29
Revision: 1
Depends: emacs-nox | emacs-x
Optional: emacs-el
Conffiles:
/etc/site-start.el 67336a514b5873eea3341fb5421182b4
Description: The GNU Emacs editor.
GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor.
On the third hand, when I select emacs I'm not taken into a recursive package listing
to select emacs-nox or emacs-x, so maybe the problem is with dselect...
[I had removed emacs-x on the assumption that the emacs distribution had been
upgraded such that it didn't make a distinction between -x and -nox -- I thought
there'd been a change such that the X libs were included in base and all
-x -nox package pairs had been simplified...]
--
Raul
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More info:
this was caused by the absence of the emacs .deb file. Basically, I
would classify it as a difficult to interpret set of error messages.
[Are dpkg error messages logged automatically when dselect invokes
dpkg? If so, it would be nice to have a "browse error messages from
this session", and possibly even a "report bug, excerpting session
log" option from dselect.]
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From: rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu (Raul Miller)
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Subject: dselect out of sync with dpkg
Package: dpkg
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Here's a screen from dselect:
dselect - main package listing (by priority) +/-=select v=verbose ?=help
HIOS Pri Section Package Description
----- All Standard packages in section editors -----
-** Std editors emacs The GNU Emacs editor.
-- Std editors emacs-nox GNU Emacs binary (without X11 support).
__ Std editors emacs-x GNU Emacs binary (with X11 support).
----- All Standard packages in section mail -----
*** Std mail biff A simple mail notification tool
*** Std mail elm A full screen ELectronic Mail interactive user agent.
*** Std mail mh MH is a set of electronic mail handling programs. Unlike
*** Std mail procmail Versatile e-mail processor.
emacs removed (configs remain); selected (was: selected). Standard
emacs - The GNU Emacs editor.
GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor.
description of emacs
Here's from the dpkg run immediately preceeding generation of this display:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hyperlatex:
hyperlatex depends on emacs; however:
Package emacs is not installed.
dpkg: error processing hyperlatex (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of psnfss:
psnfss depends on texpsfnt; however:
Package texpsfnt is not installed.
dpkg: error processing psnfss (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
/disk/debian/debian-0.93/binary/x11/xbase-3.1.2-4.deb
ax25-util
tin
hyperlatex
psnfss
installation script returned error exit status 1.
Press RETURN to continue.
I think it's strange that dselect presumes that emacs is installed, when in fact it is not.
[As an aside, to attempt to fix this problem, I de-selected emacs, removed it, then re-selected
emacs to attempt to force its installation. This didn't change anything.]
Then again, maybe this isn't a problem with dselect, here's what dpkg --status emacs has to say:
Package: emacs
Status: install ok config-files
Priority: standard
Section: editors
Maintainer: Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.org>
Version: 19.29
Revision: 1
Depends: emacs-nox | emacs-x
Optional: emacs-el
Conffiles:
/etc/site-start.el 67336a514b5873eea3341fb5421182b4
Description: The GNU Emacs editor.
GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor.
On the third hand, when I select emacs I'm not taken into a recursive package listing
to select emacs-nox or emacs-x, so maybe the problem is with dselect...
[I had removed emacs-x on the assumption that the emacs distribution had been
upgraded such that it didn't make a distinction between -x and -nox -- I thought
there'd been a change such that the X libs were included in base and all
-x -nox package pairs had been simplified...]
--
Raul
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Raul Miller writes ("Bug#1644: dselect out of sync with dpkg"):
> More info:
>
> this was caused by the absence of the emacs .deb file. Basically, I
> would classify it as a difficult to interpret set of error messages.
What, precisely, would you like the programs to have said, and can you
think of a way of implementing it ? Did you try running dpkg --audit ?
> [Are dpkg error messages logged automatically when dselect invokes
> dpkg? If so, it would be nice to have a "browse error messages from
> this session", and possibly even a "report bug, excerpting session
> log" option from dselect.]
No, error messages aren't logged automatically - this is on the
buglist as #957.
Ian.
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