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From: Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: [Caml-list] opam corrupted my sources.list.
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 22:01:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161218030147.GB15171@topoi.pooq.com> (raw)

Well, technically, it was the directory /etc/apt/sources.list.d that 
got an unwanted file:

opam.list

and I'm guessing that it was opam from the name of that file.

It contained the line:

deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ocaml/Debian_7.0/ /

This caused havoc with my system because I am *not* running Debian or 
suse, but devuan, a Debian derivative, and I am now stuck with 
aptitude tring to install a *huge* collection of unwanted and 
inconsistent packages because the dependencies in my system are 
different from those in the openuse repository.

I am still unable to use aptitude to do routine upgrades.

Why does opam do this?  And, is it indeed opam?

Perhaps devuan needs to do something special with ocaml-related 
packages, but until I know what's happening and why it's hard to know 
where to start.

-- hendrik


             reply	other threads:[~2016-12-18  3:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-18  3:01 Hendrik Boom [this message]
2016-12-18  4:42 ` Gabriel Scherer
2016-12-18 16:38   ` Hendrik Boom
2016-12-18 17:04 ` Xavier Leroy

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