[Gllug] Debian Sarge security updates

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 29 Sep, John Edwards wrote:
> 

> 
> Which packages are you being prompted to update and which to remove ?
> 
> Aptitude should show you a reason why they are being uninstalled, 
> either in the bottom half of the screen or as a section header in 
> the top half when you hit "g".

   Perhaps I am worrying for no reason, it may be just part of the upgrading
process, but it does appear strange to me.
   The packages are shown in magenta before I hit g, each line starting with
"idA", showing a negative size change, and ending with two columns showing
identical version numbers. More than half of the base system are shown with
missing dependencies, including near the top of the list

aptitude
at
chrony
cron
defoma
discover1
fam
gksu
grub
hal
hotplug
locales
slang1
syslogd
tasksel

and even

kernel-image-2.6-686
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686
kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686
klogd

> 
> Do you get the same behaviour in dselect ?
> 
   I seem to remember warnings that dselect may not cope fully with Sarge,
so have not used dselect since I moved to Sarge.

> 
> There are a few random things I can think of:
> 
> Aptitude does have a system where if package B was automatically 
> installed to satisfy the dependencies of package A, then when A 
> is uninstalled then you will be prompted to uninstalled B.
> 
> Some recent 2.6 kernels in the backports repository drag in a lot 
> of new packages including a different init system, which means 
> uninstalling the old one and breaking some dependencies. Any 
> reference to backports or other extra repositories ?
> 
   This was a general security upgrade as recommended in a recent advisory

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:27:55 +0200 (CEST)
[SECURITY] [DSA 1184-2] New Linux 2.6.8 packages fix several vulnerabilities

   The new kernel version should be

    Intel IA-32 architecture         2.6.8-16sarge5

> 
> Rerunning '/usr/sbin/apt-setup' may get you a cleaner sources.list 
> file.
> 

   The result was no change.


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Chris Bell

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