possible problems with apt-get AND installing dhcpcd

possible problems with apt-get AND installing dhcpcd

[Cheryl Homiak]

Ok, thank you, that worked. I had a bad feeling about it when I was told
to take lines out of my sources.list but at the time I was having problems
with duplicate entries so I took the person's advice. I was missing about
15 packages that needed to be upgraded, and dhcpcd is available. Haven't
installed it yet because pump will be removed. Would somebody mind
explaining to me if there is something I have to do with the config file
for this package when I install it. With dhcp-client I gave up because I
read the man page and still didn't understand what specifically I needed
to modify and how; maybe the dhcpcd man page will be more understandable
to me, and I'm certainly going to read it, but any help would be
appreciated. If everybody's getting tired of this topic on list, I don't
mind if people respond privately. Thanks.

                              Cheryl

Re: possible problems with apt-get AND installing dhcpcd

[Andor Demarteau]

hdcpcd was taken out of debian testing afaik.
This means that the entry still existed in your dpkg-databse but there
there's no valid file on the server or mirror to download.
Sometime this can be overcome by looking in /var/lib/dpkg/available and to
see if there's a package with the Rrovides: line containing the
package-name
you wanted to install.

In any case, testing or even unstable sometimes plays tricks on you, I'm
running unstable on 2 machines where which sometimes want to remove my
ipchains ;)
These problems can be a result of broken dependencies or dependencies that
wre not ro wrongly updated.

Mostly a check back in a couple of days will reveal the problem beeing
solved.

Running testing and certainly unstable is bleeding-edge, be warned!

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Re: possible problems with apt-get AND installing dhcpcd

[Cheryl Homiak]

Well, in my case, I had been told to take out the lines in my sources.list
that didn't pertain to the testing files or security; when I restored the
original sources.list that still had the test file locations put first, I
could then access packages that don't have an upgraded version in testing
or unstable. This at least appears to give me the best of both worlds and
doesn't appear to be downgrading anything.
I don't know that'd I'd want to do unstable at this point, but I like
doing the testing version, pitfalls notwithstanding.

                              Cheryl

Re: possible problems with apt-get AND installing dhcpcd

[Andor Demarteau]

On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
hi,
 > Well, in my case, I had been told to take out the lines in my sources.list
 > that didn't pertain to the testing files or security; when I restored the
 > original sources.list that still had the test file locations put first, I
 > could then access packages that don't have an upgraded version in testing
 > or unstable. This at least appears to give me the best of both worlds and
 > doesn't appear to be downgrading anything.
Be carefull for dependencies, it may work but it also could mean that by
another package it explicitly needs i.e. a certain libc6 version wheilst
you have a newer version already installed.
I suggest running apt-get always with -u to see which packages are beeing
installed/keptback/removed/upgraded
then you can easily see what it is about to do and if that is not going to
break your system.

 > I don't know that'd I'd want to do unstable at this point, but I like
 > doing the testing version, pitfalls notwithstanding.
If it is a security-critical system (like a firewall/gateway is), then
don't even run testing ;)

 >                               Cheryl
 > 
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