[olug] apt-get with RedHat basics

[Brian Wiese]

On 01 Apr 2003 07:09:15 -0600
"Ryan O'Rourke" <ryano at ch-gifts.com> wrote:

|On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 14:41, Ryan O'Rourke wrote:
|> Scott Jones said:
|> > On Monday 31 March 2003 02:09 pm, Ryan O'Rourke wrote:
|> >
|> >> Does anyone know how I can use apt-get on RH 8 to exclude certain
|> >> packages I don't want to upgrade?
|> 
|> > You can set it in /etc/apt/apt.conf:
|> >
|> > RPM
|> >    // Leave list empty to disable
|> >    Hold {
|> >        "package-to-hold";
|> >    };
|
|Hmm... this still isn't really working for me. Commands and their output
|as well as a section of apt.conf follow:

You have glibc, kernel, and ppp set to HOLD.  Below it's saying you have a
conflict with kernel and ppp, so I might try removing one or both of them
from the hold line - perhaps one needs to be upgraded.

|############
|# apt.conf #
|############
|RPM {
|    Ignore { };
|    Hold {"glibc"; "kernel"; "ppp"};
|    Allow-Duplicated { "^kernel$"; "^kernel-"; "^alsa-kernel";
|"^gpg-pubkey$" };
|    Options { };
|    Install-Options "";
|    Erase-Options "";
|    Source {
|        Build-Command "rpmbuild --rebuild";
|    };
|############
|[root at disco_stu apt]# apt-get upgrade
|Reading Package Lists... Done
|Building Dependency Tree... Done
|You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
|The following packages have unmet dependencies:
|  kernel#2.4.18-14: Conflicts: ppp (<= 2.3.15)
|E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
|
|[root at disco_stu apt]# apt-get -f install --no-act
|Reading Package Lists... Done
|Building Dependency Tree... Done
|Correcting dependencies... failed.
|The following packages have unmet dependencies:
|  kernel#2.4.18-14: Conflicts: ppp (<= 2.3.15)
|E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
|E: Unable to correct dependencies
|
|So next I edit apt.conf so there are no packages in the HOLD list:
|
|[root at disco_stu apt]# apt-get upgrade --no-act
|Reading Package Lists... Done
|Building Dependency Tree... Done
|You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
|The following packages have unmet dependencies:
|  kernel#2.4.18-14: Conflicts: ppp (<= 2.3.15)
|E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
|
|[root at disco_stu apt]# apt-get -f install --no-act
|Reading Package Lists... Done
|Building Dependency Tree... Done
|Correcting dependencies... Done
|The following packages will be REMOVED:
|  kernel-pcmcia-cs#1:3.1.31-9 ppp-mppe pptp-linux redhat-config-network
|rp-pppoe wvdial
|0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 removed and 10 not upgraded.
|Remv kernel-pcmcia-cs#1:3.1.31-9 (1:3.1.31-9 Unknown:Unknown/Unknown)
|[kernel#2.4.18-14 ]
|Remv pptp-linux (1.2.0-1 ) [kernel#2.4.18-14 ]
|Remv redhat-config-network (1.1.20-1 Unknown:Unknown/Unknown)
|[kernel#2.4.18-14 ]
|Remv wvdial (1.53-7 Unknown:Unknown/Unknown) [kernel#2.4.18-14 ]
|Remv rp-pppoe (3.4-7 Unknown:Unknown/Unknown) [kernel#2.4.18-14 ]
|Remv ppp-mppe (2.4.0-4 )
|
|Apt wants to remove all those packages? That doesn't sound good to me. I
|need at least some of those to make my
|VPN connection work. Even using '--force-yes' in addition to the above
|commands yeilds the same error messages.
|
|Any more help getting this straightened out would be greatly
|appreciated. I'd love to get apt working on all my
|systems so I don't have to deal with up2date again.
|
|Thanks again.
|
|-- Ryan
|
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