Description of problem: I'm trying to upgrade my Fedora 8 x86_64 box to Fedora 9 x86_64 with apt-get. I have been successful with this since FC4. After updating sysvinit to upstart apt-get returns WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! authconfig newt-python (due to authconfig) rhpl (due to authconfig) kudzu rpm rpm-libs (due to rpm) vim-minimal Please help
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Hi Panu What's up with this? It's starting to get a little urgent because of the upcoming end of life with Fedora 8. Any suggestions that I could do in the mean time. There seems to be a whole lot of dependency issues when trying to get the upgrade done.
Oops... Didn't notice that it was assigned to Axel. So... Hi Axel... Any progress on this?
Can you try using just apt-get upgrade to get the bulk of the updates done and then retry the dist-upgrade? The worst part is that it tries to remove rpm and rpm-libs. You can try -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=true to get some more verbose output to see why apt would like to remove rpm/rpm-libs.
Created attachment 313894 [details] Debug Run with Apt-Get OK -- Success... Mostly... I still have some perl issues but the upgrade is now complete. Here is the order that got things done; with a brief explanations. Seems like a few balls got dropped when documenting dependencies in the packages. This should never have been this hard. Anyway... Thanks for the suggestion Axel. And please... could you and the boys make sure that these dependency issues don't pop up again... Please? Again Thanks for your help Axel. Eli ------------- Suggested from the debug info apt-get -f install authconfig newt-python python rhpl kudzu vim vim-minimal totem-pl-parser Conflicts with 32bit packages. These conflicts should never have happened. rpm -e perl.32bit glib2-2.14.6-2.fc8.i386 gnome-keyring-2.20.3-1.fc8.i386 libsoup-2.2.104-1.fc8.i386 libbonobo-2.20.3-1.fc8.i386 gtk2-2.12.8-2.fc8.i386 ORBit2-2.14.10-2.fc8.i386 dbus-glib-0.73-8.fc8.i386 flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-release.i386 nspluginwrapper-i386-0.9.91.5-1.x86_64 gail-1.20.2-1.fc8.i386 pango-1.18.4-1.fc8.i386 atk-1.20.0-1.fc8.i386 gamin-0.1.9-4.fc8.i386 libIDL-0.8.9-1.fc8.i386 libglade2-2.6.2-3.fc8.i386 openldap-2.3.39-4.fc8.i386 avahi-0.6.21-8.fc8.i386 avahi-glib-0.6.21-8.fc8.i386 GConf2-2.20.1-1.fc8.i386 gnome-vfs2-2.20.1-1.fc8.i386 libgnome-2.20.1-2.fc8.i386 evolution-data-server-1.12.3-6.fc8.i386 libgweather gnome-applets apt-get -f install authconfig newt-python python rhpl kudzu vim vim-minimal totem-pl-parser apt-get -f upgrade rpm -e --nodeps tetex texinfo-tex tetex-latex jadetex apt-get -f dist-upgrade Same issue with rpm and rpm-libs but the following was held back so... apt-get -f install beagle ldapjdk ncurses ncurses-devel apt-get -f dist-upgrade Finally
Sounds like a multilib problem. AFAIU multilib support in apt isn't yet perfect, and you may be seeing some bug manifestation of it. That's why your bug report is even more of value! I think this is an upstream issue and since we have upstream in the house I'll switch Cc and Assigned_To positions :)
OK... I hope this gets fixed soonest. Thanks again.
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