[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: rebooting constantly after upgrading packages

[From: Álvaro J. Iradier]

Hi, I tried the red pill mode and noticed that a new version of
gst-plugins-farsight was available. I installed it, and now everything
works perfect again!

Thanks very much for updating the broken package :)

Greets.

On 9/2/06, Laurent GUERBY <laurent at guerby.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 14:56 +0300, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> > ext Álvaro J. Iradier <airadier at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > What's the difference between apt-get upgrading and using the
> > > application manager "search for updates" option? I thought it was the
> > > same...
> >
> > No, not exactly.  What the Application manager does is more similar to
> > "apt-get install".  It will not upgrade the system packages
> > automatically theway "apt-get upgrade" does.
> >
> > > If upgrading is not meant for consumers, why is that broken package in
> > > the maemo repository? Shouldn't it be in sardine? I mean, what's the
> > > point on having updated packages?
> >
> > You are spot on.  This is chaos and the mistral repositories should
> > not contain the broken packages.  They need to be fixed and/or
> > reverted to the same version that is in the IT2006 flash image.
> >
> > People here are aware of this... (and also appropriately embarrassed).
>
> :)
>
> For the record I was hit too and hopefully found help on #maemo
> so I could get out of the reboot cycles.
>
> I did not realize that the application manager wasn't doing the same
> things as apt-get upgrade until too late.
>
> When the mistral repositories are fixed, what's the best course,
> apt-get upgrade again? (I do it through ssh from my regular PC.)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Laurent
>
>


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