apt-0.5.15lorg3.1-rc1

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 16 May 2006, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> Panu,
>
> On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 19:25 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> Didn't have a chance to test all the things I would've liked over the
>> weekend so instead of a new release, here's a release candidate for
>> lorg3.1. See http://apt-rpm.org/roadmap.shtml for what's supposed to be
>> done in this one:
>> http://apt-rpm.org/testing/apt-0.5.15lorg3.1-rc1.tar.bz2
>
> I am observing regressions with this version in comparison to earlier
> SVN versions.
>
> ATM, an "apt-get dist-upgrade" from Fedora-4->Fedora-5 ends up rather
> dissatisfactory:
>
> ...
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> WARNING: kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.16-1.2108_FC4 not available for kernel
> 2.6.16-1.2111_FC5!
> WARNING: kernel-module-nvidia not available for kernel
> 2.6.16-1.2111_FC5!
> WARNING: kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.16-1.2096_FC4 not available for kernel
> 2.6.16-1.2111_FC5!
> ...
> 41 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 859 removed and 38 not upgraded.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  kernel#2.6.16-1.2111_FC5: PreDepends: mkinitrd (>= 4.2.21-1)
>                            PreDepends: initscripts (>= 8.11.1-1)
>                            PreDepends: module-init-tools
>                            PreDepends: fileutils


Ouch. So the epoch-mangling stuff broke something badly.. folks, don't 
bother testing rc1, I'll put a new version out when I find out what's the 
problem with rc1 (something silly most likely)

 	- Panu -