vmware-server in feisty-commercial keeps getting reinstalled

Hi Soren,

I don't think the difference in the Section: field is the culprit in this case since it is already present in the indexes generated by a-f:

{{{
$apt-cache show sqcwa | grep 'Section'
Section: universe/web
$dpkg-deb --info sqcwa_0.3-3_i386.deb | grep 'Section'
 Section: web
}}}

However as the bug 172308 suggests the lack of Pre-Depends: field might be the real cause of this problem.

Good point about the Section; I do believe you are right.

I've checked with mvo and he confirmed that Pre-Depends mismatch will cause constant reinstalls, so that's clearly the culprit in this case.

As my bug was reported as duplicate, can title be modified :

replacing feisty by "feisty and gutsy" ? I am using gutsy and seeing this pita bug :(

I can confirm the same bug on Ubuntu 7.10 32bit

a can also confirm this bug on several installations (all gutsy, 32bit)

Below is the otput of the apt-cache for the vmware server package. There are two entries, one in section:misc and the other in section:partner/misc.

smiki@neverland:~$ apt-cache show vmware-server
Package: vmware-server
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Installed-Size: 127592
Maintainer: VMware Build Team <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.0.4-1gutsy1
Depends: netbase, xinetd | netkit-inetd | inetd, update-inetd, vmware-server-kernel-modules, psmisc, libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.16), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.9.0), libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1), libexpat1 (>= 1.95.8), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.3.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.5-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.0.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libice6, libjpeg62, libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.10.1), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.8rel), librsvg2-2 (>= 2.9.5), librsvg2-common (>= 2.9.5), libsm6, libssl0.9.7, libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.4-1), libx11-6, libxext6, libxft2 (>> 2.1.1), libxi6, libxml2 (>= 2.6.20), libxrender1, libxt6, libxtst6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)
Conflicts: vmware-player, libdbus-1-2
Filename: pool/partner/v/vmware-server/vmware-server_1.0.4-1gutsy1_i386.deb
Size: 79431720
MD5sum: fe3fcc9303b9492e43f3e32d15a77d52
Description: Free virtual machine server from VMware
 The free VMware Server lets you run pre-built virtual machines on
 your desktop. You can run multiple operating systems side-by-side,
 easing the process of software development, testing, and evaluation.
 .
 Virtual machines developed in VMware Workstation or ESX Server can
 be run in VMware Server.
 .
 To run the VMware Server Console, just run /usr/bin/vmware from within X.
 .
 Note: You will also need the VMware Server kernel modules to run vmware.
 These can be built from source from vmware-server -kernel-source, or you
 can install a pre-built vmware-server-kernel-modules package for your kernel.

Package: vmware-server
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: partner/misc
Installed-Size: 127592
Maintainer: VMware Build Team <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.0.4-1gutsy1
Depends: netbase, xinetd | netkit-inetd | inetd, update-inetd, vmware-server-kernel-modules, psmisc, libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.16), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.9.0), libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1), libexpat1 (>= 1.95.8), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.3.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.5-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.0.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libice6, libjpeg62, libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.10.1), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.8rel), librsvg2-2 (>= 2.9.5), librsvg2-common (>= 2.9.5), libsm6, libssl0.9.7, libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.4-1), libx11-6, libxext6, libxft2 (>> 2.1.1), libxi6, libxml2 (>= 2.6.20), libxrender1, libxt6, libxtst6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)
Pre-Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0
Conflicts: vmware-player, libdbus-1-2
Conffiles:
 /etc/pam.d/vmware-authd 560edead4cce6daa477f7470587c3763
 /etc/vmware/state/config 41b14ff8ab62ef9e70dae93381135872
 /etc/vmware/installer.sh 128f86679c5ab945c66e5531ea08a098
 /etc/vmware/signing-key.pub bbe30dc98f69e436a4cd7e1f6ce28ee0
 /etc/init.d/vmware-server e4927c06c54d2aab4d329f73afe14ee6
 /etc/xinetd.d/vmware-authd b6877cc1074ec890cd426915416c374a
Description: Free virtual ...

RF 5284, partner archive generation is using apt-ftparchive as the ubuntu primary-archive.

The issue mentioned should be fixed now, see http://archive.canonical.com/dists/gutsy/partner/binary-i386/Packages.gz

Tried with feisty partner and it is fixed. But there is also feisty-commercial that is not fixed yet. I don't know if this is still an official repository but it could be updated as well.

Hi Ioannis,

The compatibility indexes ($suite-commercial) should are fixed now.

Thanks for reporting this.

Problem has been solved for my 64-bit feisty installation (which references the canonical feisty-commercial repository).

Thanks for fixing this (and all the other great work!)

Ori.