Re: Debian Sid installation successful on rx6600

Hi Adrian,

On 08.11.20 11:44, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Frank!
>
> On 11/7/20 8:57 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>> I tried the one from today on the rx2660 I have at home ATM. The rx6600
>> is at a remote location but offline.
>>
>> Unfortunately the new image shows a problem during the initial
>> `debootstrap` run for "vim-tiny" and "vim-common". Looks like their
>> versions were different during creation of the image:
>
> Should be fixed in today's image [1].
>
> Adrian
>
>> [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2020-11-08/debian-10.0.0-ia64-NETINST-1.iso
>

Just tested this one and this time the installation fails after "tasksel":
```
Nov  9 19:32:01 in-target: Reading package lists...

Nov  9 19:32:01 in-target:

Nov  9 19:32:01 in-target: Building dependency tree...

Nov  9 19:32:02 in-target:

Nov  9 19:32:02 in-target: Reading state information...

Nov  9 19:32:02 in-target:

Nov  9 19:32:02 in-target: Some packages could not be installed. This
may mean t
hat you have

Nov  9 19:32:02 in-target: requested an impossible situation or if you
are using
  the unstable

Nov  9 19:32:02 in-target: distribution that some required packages have
not yet
  been created

Nov  9 19:32:02 in-target: or been moved out of Incoming.

Nov  9 19:32:02 in-target: The following information may help to resolve
the sit
uation:

Nov  9 19:32:02 in-target:

Nov  9 19:32:02 in-target: The following packages have unmet
dependencies:
Nov  9 19:32:02 in-target:  liblocale-gettext-perl : PreDepends:
perlapi-5.30.0
Nov  9 19:32:02 in-target:  libtext-charwidth-perl : Depends:
perlapi-5.30.0
Nov  9 19:32:02 in-target:  libtext-iconv-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.30.0

Nov  9 19:32:02 in-target: E

Nov  9 19:32:02 in-target: :

Nov  9 19:32:02 in-target: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated
breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

Nov  9 19:32:02 in-target: tasksel: apt-get failed (100)
```

Maybe I should try at a later date.

ATM [2] shows all Perl packages with version numbers 5.32.0 but [3] is
still requiring 5.30.0.

[2]: http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-ia64/main/p/perl/

[3]:
http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-ia64/main/libl/liblocale-gettext-perl/liblocale-gettext-perl_1.07-4_ia64.buildinfo

BTW, maybe it's just a feeling, but from my memory these version number
"mismatches" seem to happen very often for ia64, but are not so common
for other ports architectures. Is there something different in the
package build process on ia64 compared to other architectures that leads
to (more) broken dependencies?

Cheers,
Frank