[PlanetCCRMA] apt oddity at planetedge

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 10:34, Andrew Burgess wrote:
>   root@athlon:apt # apt-get install kernel#2.6.8.1-1.520.1vP0.ll.rhfc2.ccrma kernel-module-alsa-2.6.8.1-1.520.1vP0.ll.rhfc2.ccrma
>   Reading Package Lists... Done
>   Building Dependency Tree... Done
>   Package kernel-module-alsa-2.6.8.1-1.520.1vP0.ll.rhfc2.ccrma is a virtual package provided by:
>     kernel-module-alsa-2.6.8.1-1.520.1vP0.ll.rhfc2.ccrma#1.0.6-0.rc2.cvs.1.rhfc2.ccrma 1.0.6-0.rc2.cvs.1.rhfc2.ccrma
>     kernel-module-alsa-2.6.8.1-1.520.1vP0.ll.rhfc2.ccrma#1.0.6-0.rc2.cvs.1.rhfc2.ccrma 1.0.6-0.rc2.cvs.1.rhfc2.ccrma
>   You should explicitly select one to install.
> 
> The two choices offered look to me to be exactly the same. Is this just an apt 'feature'
> or is there a database screwed up somewhere. I did do an update first...

Could you check your /etc/apt/apt.conf against the one I recommend? Most
probably you have an extra entry for "kernel-module" in the
AllowDuplicates line. 

-- Fernando