[SOLVED] gnutls26

qrange · 03-05-2014, 04:12 AM

as per http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2869 , I'd like to update libgnutls26 from 2.12.23-12 to 2.12.23-13
however, it would break bunch of other packages (including gnome), which is why it hasn't been done automatically, presumably.
what to do?
thanks.

descendant_command · 03-05-2014, 04:24 AM

Post output of

Code:

aptitude install libgnutls26 -s

qrange · 03-05-2014, 04:30 AM

Code:

No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Would download/install/remove packages.

evo2 · 03-05-2014, 06:44 PM

Hi,

I guess you are running testing/jessie? The updated package (version 2.12.23-13) hasn't hit testing yet. However you should be able to install it from sid without any problems. Eg

Code:

wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnutls26/libgnutls26_2.12.23-13_amd64.deb
dpkg -i libgnutls26_2.12.23-13_amd64.deb

The above worked on my jessie machine.

Why do you say that it will break other packages?

Evo2.

qrange · 03-06-2014, 01:13 AM

yes, I'm using 'testing', with pinning 'unstable' ('testing' priority higher). If I try to manually install it in aptitude, it automatically wants to uninstall broken packages.
someone up there must hate 'testing'.

evo2 · 03-06-2014, 01:24 AM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by qrange

yes, I'm using 'testing', with pinning 'unstable' ('testing' priority
higher). If I try to manually install it in aptitude, it automatically wants to uninstall broken packages.

Hmm, guess you have some packages installed that I don't. Are any of them essential to you?

Quote:

someone up there must hate 'testing'.

Yeah, this is the first time I've used testing in more than 10 years. I normally either use stable or unstable. I had been running stable on this machine, but I needed newer X to get external displays working - so I upgraded to testing. Since the upgrade cycles with Debian are now much faster than they used to be I'll try to stick with Jessie - hopefully it will be released as stable with 12 months.

Cheers,

Evo2.

descendant_command · 03-06-2014, 04:03 AM

I'm guessing you have something else going on, but without any information it is impossible to guess any further.

qrange · 03-06-2014, 05:12 AM

If I try to manually update both amd64 and i386 versions, only few packages break:

Code:

gnome
gnome-desktop-environment
gnome-nettool
iputils-ping
libcurl4-openssl-dev
libgnutls-dev
libgnutls-openssl27
libgnutlsxx27
librtmp-dev

out of them, only these:

Code:

libgnutls-dev
libgnutls-openssl27
libgnutlsxx27

are 'unskippable'

jdkaye · 03-06-2014, 05:27 AM

If you use apt pinning then wouldn't this command work for you?

Code:

sudo aptitude -t unstable install libgnutls26

jdk

qrange · 03-09-2014, 05:03 AM

it has been resolved by one of updates. now it installs as usual in aptitude with upgrade.
thanks.