Dev1 Galaxy Forum / Getting rid of "frankenstein" packages

Re: Getting rid of "frankenstein" packages

dummy@example.com (zapper) — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 22:29:59 +0000

Always remember not to mix debian repos with ubuntu repos, or similar. Repos that only have one or the other, are a different case if they are from unofficial repos, but still be careful of what depends get pulled in.

Re: Getting rid of "frankenstein" packages

dummy@example.com (quickfur) — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:57:47 +0000

Cool, sounds like apt pinning is what I'm looking for. Will try it and see.

Re: Getting rid of "frankenstein" packages

dummy@example.com (delgado) — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 19:11:43 +0000

"apt pinning" is a possibility. A priority of at least 1001 allows package downgrade.
In your case, It would be pinning the daedalus packages to 1001 and then doing the usual upgrade.
I've done that a few times, it usually just works.

# cat /etc/apt/preferences
Package: *
Pin: release n=daedalus
Pin-Priority: 1001

# apt update
# apt upgrade
# apt dist-upgrade

Re: Getting rid of "frankenstein" packages

dummy@example.com (aluma) — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 18:13:02 +0000

I had a similar problem (dist-up* didn’t help), of course it’s better to reinstall, it’s faster and the result is without surprises. If there is a separate /home partition, this is quite easy to do. And if not, then it's time to do that too.

Re: Getting rid of "frankenstein" packages

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 18:06:41 +0000

If I am not mistaken there was an older thread in the forum with a similar issue. All I remember there was no easy way to achieve that what you want, it was a package by package undertaking.

Re: Getting rid of "frankenstein" packages

dummy@example.com (aluma) — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 18:02:16 +0000

Example using synaptic, first disable unnecessary repositories and reload them.

Re: Getting rid of "frankenstein" packages

dummy@example.com (quickfur) — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:35:50 +0000

I know what I did is unsupported / foolish / whatever. But I got it to (mostly) work. So now I'm just looking for a way to clean things up. Reinstalling isn't really an option since this is my primary PC.

Re: Getting rid of "frankenstein" packages

dummy@example.com (golinux) — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:25:28 +0000

Do have a look at this page to understand the Devuan/Debian release relationships:

https://www.devuan.org/os/releases

Re: Getting rid of "frankenstein" packages

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:19:11 +0000

... migrated to daedalus from debian/testing ...

Well, the Debian equivalent to Daedalus is Bookworm, not Trixie/Testing. A new installation of Daedalus would solve all issues.

Getting rid of "frankenstein" packages

dummy@example.com (quickfur) — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:15:37 +0000

I migrated to daedalus from debian/testing, and while I've fixed some resulting dependency issues with packages that are newer than what's in daedulus, I'm still running into issues with packages that are "too new", causing some existing packages in daedalus to be uninstallable unless I first track down each dependency that's "too new" and remove them manually.

Is there a way to force apt to auto-downgrade packages that are newer than what's in daedalus? That would ease a lot of this pain.