Debian Bug report logs - #369781
apt: fails to install packages from cdrom in presence of pre-depends

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jiri Palecek <jpalecek@web.de>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: apt: fails to install packages from cdrom in presence of pre-depends

Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:51:23 +0200

Package: apt
Version: 0.6.43.3
Severity: normal

Hello,

Yesterday, I tried to install ilisp and got (approximately) the error:

could not configure pre-depends, possible dependency cycle

There are no dependency cycles, but from what was happening when I
installed it by hand, I deduce that the problem was that I was
installing from a cdrom, and the situation was as follows:

- ilisp pre-depends: common-lisp-controller
- common-lisp-controller depends: something I don't remember, let's say X
- ilisp and X are on CD1
- common-lisp-controller is on CD2

The problem is that apt asked for CD1 first (it's logical, because 
common-lisp-controller was not installable at that time), and by
the way tried to install ilisp, which needs common-lisp-controller
configured, but that couldn't be because CD2 hadn't been inserted.

Shouldn't apt do something more reasonable than just failing?

Regards
   Jiri Palecek


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-2) (ignored: LC_ALL set to cs_CZ)

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-3    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.1.0-1  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.1.0-1    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

Versions of packages apt recommends:
pn  debian-archive-keyring        <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information

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Message #10 received at 369781@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jiří Paleček <jpalecek@web.de>

To: 369781@bugs.debian.org

Subject: remainder

Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:45:02 +0200

Please, ask for testcases if you need them and cannot
reproduce the bug. I experienced this bug when I was
upgrading packages from the Etch snapshot DVD, so it
probably needs to be fixed.

Message #15 received at 369781@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf.devel@gmail.com>

To: 369781@bugs.debian.org, Jir(í Palec(ek <jpalecek@web.de>

Subject: state of #369781

Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:16:51 +0200

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Hello!

Is this bug still reproducible in Debian testing (Lenny) now?

-- 
Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
Ukrainian C++ Developer, Debian APT contributor

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