From: Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>
To: Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>
Cc: caml users <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] opam corrupted my sources.list.
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 23:42:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPFanBEUzi0HbEQO_UZpMt-X1CezYm7GJ8-YRZYtJm0Rt_2fqA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161218030147.GB15171@topoi.pooq.com>
This is not related to opam. It is a repository of Debian-style
packages visibly intended for Ubuntu users, authored by Anil
Madhavapeddy who hosted then on opensuse repositories. My guess is
that you enabled this repository manually to get 4.02.1 OCaml packages
at a time where they were not yet packaged in your official Debian
repository.
The best way to setup an OCaml *development environment* today is to
install opam (either through your distribution package manager, as a
binary, or from sources built from a distribution-packaged OCaml
version), and then install ocaml-$version switches in opam. (For
end-user packages written in OCaml, distribution packages are still
very important.)
On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 10:01 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-18 4:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-18 3:01 Hendrik Boom
2016-12-18 4:42 ` Gabriel Scherer [this message]
2016-12-18 16:38 ` Hendrik Boom
2016-12-18 17:04 ` Xavier Leroy
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