Hello everyone, I hope you had a nice new years eve. I ran into problems a while ago, because when trying to install truecrypt from the security:/privacy/ repository. When installing the package truecrypt, it somehow wanted to install trucrypt-kmp-bigsmp, while I was running kernel-default. So it wanted to install kernel-bigsmp, too. I got around that by first installing truecrypt-kmp-default, and then truecrypt. At least that is what I still remember. Now I wanted to try asterisk, which is available in the network:/telephony repo for 10.3. So I added the repo in apt, and tried to install, and again something strange happens:

#apt-get install asterisk -s Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: ... kernel-bigsmp kernel-xen kernel-xenpae ... xen ... zaptel zaptel-kmp-bigsmp

Note that it wants to install zaptel-kmp-bigsmp, even if there is a kmp-default package. Also it wants to install different kernels, and xen, and I do not know why I would need xen to run asterisk. I asked the maintainer, and we are still discussing. He couldn*t reproduce this behaviour, I think because he already has a different kernel. But Im waiting for his answer on this. I then set up 10.2 minimal install in a VM, and installed asterisk (an older version) out of the 10.2 update repo. No problems. But when adding the network:/telephony repo, and trying to install the newer asterisk version, again I get:

#apt-get install asterisk -s Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: iksemel kernel-bigsmp kernel-xen kernel-xenpae libogg libpri libvorbis mISDN mISDNuser newt openldap2 postgresql-libs slang speex unixODBC xen zaptel zaptel-kmp-bigsmp The following packages will be upgraded asterisk

I could install iksemel libogg libpri libvorbis newt openldap2 postgresql-libs slang speex unixODBC without any problems, but when trying to install zaptel, apt tries to install xen and the kernels. What is going wrong there? Wrong dependencies in the packages? Problems on my machines? Problem in apt (which I doubt, cos I tried zypper as well)? Could someone try this? I think it might be a problem with the kmp-packages, but I know to little about rpms+specs to go further into detail. Thanks, OJ -- `You can do magic! Surely you can sort out - well - anything!´ Scrimgeour [...] exchanged an incredulous look with Fudge, who really did manage a smile this time as he said kindly, `The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister.´ (Harry Potter 6)