Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

[mikus@xxxxxxx (Mikus Grinbergs)]

On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 02:40:02 -0500 mikus@xxxxxxx (Mikus Grinbergs) wrote:
>
> What I think is that some of the new packages in the ftp.gwdg.de
> 9.3 Gnome component depository have a direct or indirect dependency
> upon the newer cairo, whereas some of the packages I have already
> installed on my system (e.g., 'totem') have a direct or indirect
> dependency on the older cairo.  Meaning that when I say 'apt-get
> upgrade', many new packages are found to be in conflict with the
> packages already on my system (and thus are "held back" by apt-get);
> while were I to say 'apt-get dist-upgrade', many of the packages
> already installed on my system would be found to be in conflict,
> and would be removed by apt-get.

What I did was to add the following line to the RPM section of
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/apt.conf :

    Allow-Duplicated {"cairo";};

That allowed 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to install 2 new packages (one of
them the new version of cairo) and upgrade 59 packages, leaving only
3 packages being deleted from my system.  I can live with that.

mikus