[maemo-users] flash-and-reboot, initfs-flasher, kernel-diablo-flasher

[From: Marius Vollmer]

"ext Marius Gedminas" <marius at pov.lt> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 03:51:39PM -0300, Jonathan Markevich wrote:
>> These packages are not completely installed on upgrade... if you can, go to
>> a root prompt and type apt-get -f install
>
> What's up with this, does anyone know?  Why is it that after a fresh OS
> reflash the apt database ends up inconsistent?

The osso-software-version-rx44 package exists twice: once in your device
and once in the "Nokia System Software Updates" repository.  These two
instances of the package have the same version, but different
dependencies (stupid, I know, see below).  The
osso-software-version-rx44 in the repository additionally depends on the
three packages that you list in the subject.

Apt-get uses the information from the repository, which results in the
error message you see.  Running apt-get -f install will fix it.  The
Application manager is not affected by this, it simply ignores the
problem and carries on.  After the first OS update, the problem goes
away.

It's a bug of course that the two instances of
osso-software-version-rx44 are not identical.  The additional
dependencies in the repository instance are used to (as you might have
guessed :) to control flashing of the kernel and initfs during a OS
update.  The osso-software-version-rx44 instance in the flash image does
not need them, and I didn't see the problem with this because I wasn't
thinking.  (I don't reflash my devices anymore, so I didn't run into
this problem myself...)

Yep, it's a bit embarassing, but should have no bad consequences other
than having to run "apt-get -f install" once (or disabling the "Nokia
System Software Updates" repository) before you can use apt-get on the
command line.