Re: missing dependencies while updating

Hi Adrian,

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I'm aware that you need to pass "check-valid-until=no trusted=yes allow-insecure=yes"
> to APT for it to really work with snapshots where the signature has expired. It's
> one of the longstanding annoying issues with APT that upstream has not fixed yet.

had to re-discover it myself!

Snapshots might be a clue to my solution, but I need to fix the 
conflicts. I think certain packages need old version of the libraries 
which kick out the new ones.

I tried to use aptitude which told me I had conflicts

"Trying to fix broken packages"

sometimes does miracle, but in this case did run for almost a day (!) 
and then crashed. I guess it gets into something like a loop.

To ease situation, I uninstalled some non-essential packages (I can 
reinstall them later anyway) which reduce dependencies and put as "auto" 
lots of packages. LIbraries, dev libraries...
I continued that way including inetd related things... except sshd.

At that point "apt-get distupgrade" was able to complete!! yay! so from 
that I reconstructed things and was able to reboot.
Now I can also use snapshots to test intermediate kernels, like I did 
non SPARC64, however, without GRUB it is cumbersome, only two kernels to 
switch between and one neets to be "known good"!

Riccardo