R SIG Debian - May 2006 - stable backport apt problem (solved)

Hello,

I started writing this email to describe a problem, then fixed it, so 
I'll display my ignorance anyway in case other people have a problem 
with it.

What happened was that I could get apt-get to upgrade the documentation 
packages, but not the others.

What I think was the problem was some remaining r-cran-* packages that 
are now in r-recommended.  These seemed to be blocking the upgrade of 
r-recommended, and hence r-base-core and thus r-base.

What I did was manually download r-base-core r-base-dev and 
r-recommended and install the .debs with dpkg.

Once this was done apt-get was able to fix the mess.

Here is some of the output I collected in the process.

This is the result of dpkg -l r-\* after the apt-get upgrade, which kept
back r-base r-base-dev r-base-core r-recommended


+++-==============-==============-===========================================ii 
r-base         2.1.0-1        GNU R statistical computing language
and env
ii  r-base-core    2.1.0-1        GNU R core of statistical computing
language
ii  r-base-dev     2.1.0-1        GNU R installation of auxiliary GNU R
packag
ii  r-base-html    2.3.0-0sarge1  GNU R html docs for statistical
computing sy
ii  r-base-latex   2.3.0-0sarge1  GNU R LaTeX docs for statistical
computing s

[ some r-cran-* packages deleted ]

un  r-doc-html     <none>         (no description available)
un  r-doc-info     <none>         (no description available)
un  r-doc-pdf      <none>         (no description available)
ii  r-mathlib      2.1.0-1        GNU R standalone mathematics library
ii  r-recommended  2.1.0-1        GNU R collection of recommended

This is more sources.list

tolstoy:/etc/apt# cat sources.list
deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free

#cran backports
deb http://cran.au.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/ stable/

tolstoy:/etc/apt# apt-get install r-base-core=2.3.0-0sarge1
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Version '2.3.0-0sarge1' for 'r-base-core' was not found

tolstoy:~# wget
http://cran.au.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/stable/r-base-core_2.3.0-0sarge1_i386.deb
--02:19:54--
http://cran.au.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/stable/r-base-core_2.3.0-0sarge1_i386.deb
            => `r-base-core_2.3.0-0sarge1_i386.deb'
Resolving proxy.newcastle.edu.au... 134.148.172.1, 134.148.20.65
Connecting to proxy.newcastle.edu.au[134.148.172.1]:8080... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 8,315,512 [application/x-debian-package]

100%[====================================>] 8,315,512      1.03M/s
ETA 00:00

02:20:02 (1.02 MB/s) - `r-base-core_2.3.0-0sarge1_i386.deb' saved
[8315512/8315512]

tolstoy:~# dpkg -i r-base-core_2.3.0-0sarge1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 64541 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace r-base-core 2.1.0-1 (using
r-base-core_2.3.0-0sarge1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement r-base-core ...
Setting up r-base-core (2.3.0-0sarge1) ...

Hi Robert,

On 2 May 2006 at 10:03, Robert King wrote:
| Hello,
| 
| I started writing this email to describe a problem, then fixed it, so 
| I'll display my ignorance anyway in case other people have a problem 
| with it.
| 
| What happened was that I could get apt-get to upgrade the documentation 
| packages, but not the others.
| 
| What I think was the problem was some remaining r-cran-* packages that 
| are now in r-recommended.  These seemed to be blocking the upgrade of 
| r-recommended, and hence r-base-core and thus r-base.
| 
| What I did was manually download r-base-core r-base-dev and 
| r-recommended and install the .debs with dpkg.

Hm, sounds like Christian's backported packages need some more finetuning on
the Depends/Provides/Conflicts.  

The more detail you could supply as to "what was blocked how" would
presumably help. 

Dirk
 
| Once this was done apt-get was able to fix the mess.
| 
| Here is some of the output I collected in the process.
| 
| This is the result of dpkg -l r-\* after the apt-get upgrade, which kept
| back r-base r-base-dev r-base-core r-recommended
| 
| 
| +++-==============-==============-===========================================|
ii  r-base         2.1.0-1        GNU R statistical computing language
| and env
| ii  r-base-core    2.1.0-1        GNU R core of statistical computing
| language
| ii  r-base-dev     2.1.0-1        GNU R installation of auxiliary GNU R
| packag
| ii  r-base-html    2.3.0-0sarge1  GNU R html docs for statistical
| computing sy
| ii  r-base-latex   2.3.0-0sarge1  GNU R LaTeX docs for statistical
| computing s
| 
| [ some r-cran-* packages deleted ]
| 
| un  r-doc-html     <none>         (no description available)
| un  r-doc-info     <none>         (no description available)
| un  r-doc-pdf      <none>         (no description available)
| ii  r-mathlib      2.1.0-1        GNU R standalone mathematics library
| ii  r-recommended  2.1.0-1        GNU R collection of recommended
| 
| This is more sources.list
| 
| tolstoy:/etc/apt# cat sources.list
| deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
| deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
| deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
| 
| deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
| 
| #cran backports
| deb http://cran.au.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/ stable/
| 
| tolstoy:/etc/apt# apt-get install r-base-core=2.3.0-0sarge1
| Reading Package Lists... Done
| Building Dependency Tree... Done
| E: Version '2.3.0-0sarge1' for 'r-base-core' was not found
| 
| tolstoy:~# wget
|
http://cran.au.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/stable/r-base-core_2.3.0-0sarge1_i386.deb
| --02:19:54--
|
http://cran.au.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/stable/r-base-core_2.3.0-0sarge1_i386.deb
|             => `r-base-core_2.3.0-0sarge1_i386.deb'
| Resolving proxy.newcastle.edu.au... 134.148.172.1, 134.148.20.65
| Connecting to proxy.newcastle.edu.au[134.148.172.1]:8080... connected.
| Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
| Length: 8,315,512 [application/x-debian-package]
| 
| 100%[====================================>] 8,315,512      1.03M/s
| ETA 00:00
| 
| 02:20:02 (1.02 MB/s) - `r-base-core_2.3.0-0sarge1_i386.deb' saved
| [8315512/8315512]
| 
| tolstoy:~# dpkg -i r-base-core_2.3.0-0sarge1_i386.deb
| (Reading database ... 64541 files and directories currently installed.)
| Preparing to replace r-base-core 2.1.0-1 (using
| r-base-core_2.3.0-0sarge1_i386.deb) ...
| Unpacking replacement r-base-core ...
| Setting up r-base-core (2.3.0-0sarge1) ...
| 
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