Re: proposal: add Release file to repository

On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 00:57, Andreas Vallen wrote:
> How did you manage to upgrade xlibs etc.?
> > Vlada
> 
> It was quite a fight for me to get this working too. Unfortunately I 
> don't remember exactly how I achieved it. 
> 
> The cause of our problems seems to be that the xlibs package has been 
> split. Many libraries that before were part of xlibs are now packaged 
> seperately.
> 
> You might try with an "apt-get install" that includes all of those
newer 
> packages. I would think that shouldn't be necessary if you pinned 
> experimental but who knows.
> 
> "apt-cache depends xlibs" gives the following dependencies of the new 
> xlibs package:
> 
>  Depends: libice6
>   Depends: libsm6
>   Depends: libx11-6
>   Depends: libxext6
>   Depends: libxft1
>   Depends: libxi6
>   Depends: libxmu6
>   Depends: libxmuu1
>   Depends: libxp6
>   Depends: libxpm4
>   Depends: libxrandr2
>   Depends: libxt6
>   Depends: libxtrap6
>   Depends: libxtst6
>   Depends: xlibs-data
> 
> So try: 
> 
> apt-get install -t experimental xlibs libice6 libsm6 libx11-6 ........
> 
> listing all dependencies manually.
> If this doesn't work either I don't know what to do. 
> 
I've just finished installing "pre1v5" of XFree86 - it was really pretty
hard work.
Just for the list: the advice mentioned above does't work either, I came
into dependency hell like before.
The only [for me] working solution was Roberto Sanchez's
[[email protected]] from debian-user list, who wrote:
$ ftp -i ftp.us.debian.org
anonymous
<email address>
 > cd /debian/pool/main/x/xfree86
 > mget *pre1v5*
 > exit
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
Many thanks, Roberto!!!
This way you should download in your local repository ALL debs
[including powerpc and ia64 ones] you'll need, but the repository will
be huge enough.
During installation with dpkg -i you will have to use switch
--force-overwrite,configure-any [maybe several times], and on the end
you'll find conflict between xlibs and xlib6g, which is solved with
dpkg -i --auto-deconfigure xlibs_4.3.0-0pre1v5_all.deb. 
After that I had to install libgtk1.2 from unstable [I had before
version .ximian.31, which depends on xlib6g] and remove some packages.
Now, everything is OK.
Vlada
-- 
Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka <[email protected]>

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