Bug#50516: marked as done (--download-only should ignore dependencies)
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From: Andrew Pimlott <pimlott@idiomtech.com>
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Subject: --download-only should ignore dependencies
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Package: apt
Version: 0.3.14
Severity: normal
I cannot install pcmcia-cs because of dependency conflicts, but I expect at
least to be able to download it.
# apt-get -f --download-only install pcmcia-cs
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
pcmcia-modules-2.0.35: Depends: pcmcia-cs (= 3.0.0-9) but 3.1.4-1 is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
(The above is transcribed by hand and may contain typos.)
I suggest that dependencies be ignored or at least overriden when only
downloading.
Also, I don't know why it suggested using -f when I had.
Andrew
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Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.2-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10 1:2.95.2-3 The GNU stdc++ library
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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>
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Subject: Re: Bug#50516: --download-only should ignore dependencies
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On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> I cannot install pcmcia-cs because of dependency conflicts, but I expect at
> least to be able to download it.
download only is not a feature intended to download arbitary files, but to
provide a pause after a normal run. Really it doesn't make sense within
what APT provides to download-only a broken set of packages.
> # apt-get -f --download-only install pcmcia-cs
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
> Also, I don't know why it suggested using -f when I had.
It suggested using -f with no packages, you used -f with packages. If you
do that then you must specify a complete 'soltuion' to the dependency
problem.
Jason
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