aptitude unintuitive behaviour (bug resolving dependencies?)

From: Klaas Gadeyne <klaas.gadeyne(at)fmtc.be>
Date: Tue Aug 21 2007 - 04:13:32 EDT

Hi,

while trying to install horde3 on a etch server that already has apache2 installed, aptitude (0.4.4-4) insists on installing apache (1.3) instead of using the installed apache2 version. To be sure, I manually installed other dependencies. No succes...

OTOH, apt deals fine with the installation:

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root@wwwtest:~ #

   aptitude install horde3
[...]

The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:

   apache-common fontconfig-config libapache-mod-php4 libfontconfig1    libgd2-xpm libmcrypt4 libmysqlclient15off libt1-5 libxpm4    libzzip-0-12 mysql-common php-cache php-date php-db php-file

   php-http php-http-request php-log php-mail php-mail-mime
   php-net-dime
   php-net-ftp php-net-smtp php-net-socket php-net-url
   php-services-weather php-soap php-xml-parser php-xml-serializer
   php-xml-util

   php4-common php4-gd php4-mcrypt php4-mysql php4-pear The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:

   libgd2-noxpm
[...]

0 packages upgraded, 36 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not

   upgraded.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
Abort.
root@wwwtest:~ #

   apt-get install horde3
[...]

The following extra packages will be installed:

   php-log
Suggested packages:

   imp4 turba2 php4-cli gollem webcpp chora2 xlhtml ppthtml wv    source-highlight enscript rpm php4-mhash gettext php4-sqlite    php5-sqlite
   php-mdb2
Recommended packages:

   php4-mysql php5-mysql php5-pgsql php4-pgsql php4-ldap php5-ldap    php-file php-date php-mail-mime php-mail php-services-weather    php4-gd
   php5-gd php4-gd2 php4-mcrypt php-db
The following NEW packages will be installed:

   horde3 php-log
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 5312kB of archives.
After unpacking 16.2MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

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Is this intented behaviour and did I miss something here?

Thx,

Klaas

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Received on Tue Aug 21 04:32:02 2007