Message-Id: <199610220315.UAA03478@solar-energy.vegan.org>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
From: "Richard D. Hamlin" <rdhamlin@vegan.org>
Subject: gcc installs before binutils and fails
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 20:15:22 PDT
Sender: rdhamlin@solar-energy.vegan.org


Package: gcc

First time I run dselect on my system, I tried to install a whole bunch
of stuff, including gcc, of course.  Ended the selection phase with no
conflicts wrt gcc.  But in the installation phase, dselect tried to
install gcc first.  That failed, apparently because it relies on
binutils to be installed before it.  binutils was selected, but I
could not figure out how to control the order of installation, so that
meant that I had to go back a deselect gcc and everything that depends
on it, install, and then reselect gcc, etc, and install again.  Given
the number of things that depend on gcc and the time I had spent
chosing the devel packages I wanted, this was annoying.

Debian 1.1.10, Linux 2.0.20
(kernel is the only thing that isn't straight off the 1.1.10 distribution)