Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 09:01:45AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
On 20100205_135919, Alexey Salmin wrote:
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Javier Barroso wrote:
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> >> On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:42:45 -0500 (EST), Javier Barroso wrote:
> >>> In this case output goes to stderr, so:
> >>>
> >>> tar -zcvf – * –exclude-from $EXCLUDES 2> /tmp/data$$ | openssl …
> >>
> >> Is that something you just have to find out by trial and error?
> >> I checked the man page for tar, and there’s nothing in there about
> >> the -v output being written to stderr. ?I’ll take your word for it,
> >> but in the general case, it’s hard to tell. ?Since stdout and
> >> stderr both default to the terminal, and since the doc doesn’t
> >> say, how else would you know other than by trial and error?
> > If you are using stdout as tar output, including filenames there will
> > corrupt that output, so it is logical that in this case filenames goes
> > to stderr.
> >
> > Sorry my bad english, I hope you understand my opinion
> >
>
> That’s true: programs using stdout for data output certainly have to
> use stderr as a way to report any additional info.
>
> Alexey

A comment towards ‘how would I know’:

Traditional Unix and traditional C both made provision for stdin,
stdout, and stderr. When Stroustrup, et al., started working on C++
and its earlier predicessors, someone recognized the need for a fourth
stdXXX, namely stdlog. I think it was/is a good idea, but it has
never gained enough traction to justify all the changes that would be
required if it were introduced into the POSIX standard. Instead, the
community has kept the name stderr, but changed the usage to something
that might better be named stdmsg, indicating both errors and action
logging. Its the sort of historical development that doesn’t get recorded
in any man page (or at least any man page that newbies know about).

HTH
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ahiliation:~$sudo ./aping.py -P i www.kernel.org

* Starting APing at: Sun Feb 7 05:45:32 2010 IST *
Sending ICMP Information request
./aping.py:132: DeprecationWarning: raising a string exception is deprecated
raise “timeout”
Halt reason: Retransmission exceeded after 3 probe(s)
Status:
– All is OK

++++++++++++++ statistics ++++++++++++++
Packets:
Total sent:3 | lost:3 | received:0
| lost:100.00% | received:0.00%
Timing:
rtt min:0.00 | aver:0.00 | max:0.00 ms
Total time elapsed: 00h: 00m: 08.006s

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Re: Bug#568292: auto-install: pulls netcfg into images that should

On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 06:16:57PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
Package: auto-install
Version: 1.6
Severity: important

auto-install is included in most types of images and for some reason
depends on netcfg. But for example cdrom and hd-media images don’t include
any network driver kernel modules, so the network is completely unusable.
In those cases netcfg (plus ethdetect) only serves to bloat the image.

The package should be reworked so that it works together with netcfg if it
is included in the initrd, but should also work correctly when netcfg gets
installed later by anna.

The dependency on netcfg should then be dropped.

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Re: Bug#567969: installation-reports: Machine freezes on X

On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 04:14:20PM +0100, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
 Package: installation-reports
 Severity: normal

 *** Please type your report below this line ***


 -- Package-specific info:

 Boot method: CD
 Image version: build date Februar 1 2010
 Date:

 Machine: Jewel laptop
 Partitions:


 Base System Installation Checklist:
 [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

 Initial boot:           [0]
 Detect network card:    [0]
 Configure network:      [0]
 Detect CD:              [0]
 Load installer modules: [0]
 Detect hard drives:     [0]
 Partition hard drives:  [0]
 Install base system:    [0]
 Clock/timezone setup:   [0]
 User/password setup:    [0]
 Install tasks:          [0]
 Install boot loader:    [0]
 Overall install:        [0]

 Comments/Problems:



 After installing and rebooting X starts and freezes the machine.
 Both gdm and startx. An SSH connection does freeze too.

 Nothing in the logs.

 Another little point:
 Grub does not detect other OS-es.

 With regards,
 Paul van der Vlis.

 --

 Please make sure that the hardware-summary log file, and any other
 installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this
 report. Please compress large files using gzip.

 Once you have filled out this report, mail it to submit@bugs.debian.org.

 ==============================================
 Installer lsb-release:
 ==============================================
 DISTRIB_ID=Debian
 DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Debian GNU/Linux installer"
 DISTRIB_RELEASE="6.0 (squeeze) - installer build 20100131-10:52"
 X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=cdrom

 ==============================================
 Installer hardware-summary:
 ==============================================
 uname -a: Linux laptop 2.6.30-2-486 #1 Sat Sep 26 00:03:46 UTC 2009 i686
 GNU/Linux
 lspci -knn: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82852/82855
 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller [8086:3580] (rev 02)
 lspci -knn: 	Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Device [1584:9022]
 lspci -knn: 00:00.1 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation
 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller [8086:3584] (rev 02)
 lspci -knn: 	Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Device [1584:9022]
 lspci -knn: 00:00.3 System peripheral [0880]: Intel Corporation
 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller [8086:3585] (rev 02)
 lspci -knn: 	Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Device [1584:9022]
 lspci -knn: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation
 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device [8086:3582] (rev 02)
 lspci -knn: 	Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Device [1584:9500]
 lspci -knn: 00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation
 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device [8086:3582] (rev 02)
 lspci -knn: 	Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Device [1584:9500]
 lspci -knn: 00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation
 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:24c2]
 (rev 03)
 lspci -knn: 	Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Device [1584:9022]
 lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
 lspci -knn: 00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation
 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:24c4]
 (rev 03)
 lspci -knn: 	Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Device [1584:9022]
 lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
 lspci -knn: 00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation
 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:24c7]
 (rev 03)
 lspci -knn: 	Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Device [1584:9022]
 lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
 lspci -knn: 00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM
 (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:24cd] (rev 03)
 lspci -knn: 	Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Device [1584:9022]
 lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
 lspci -knn: 00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile
 PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev 83)
 lspci -knn: 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801DBM
 (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:24cc] (rev 03)
 lspci -knn: 00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801DBM
 (ICH4-M) IDE Controller [8086:24ca] (rev 03)
 lspci -knn: 	Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Device [1584:9022]
 lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: PIIX_IDE
 lspci -knn: 00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
 (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller [8086:24c3] (rev 03)
 lspci -knn: 	Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Device [1584:9022]
 lspci -knn: 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel
 Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller
 [8086:24c5] (rev 03)
 lspci -knn: 	Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Device [1584:8401]
 lspci -knn: 01:03.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC
 card Cardbus Controller [104c:ac50] (rev 02)
 lspci -knn: 	Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Device [1584:3200]
 lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
 lspci -knn: 01:07.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation
 PRO/Wireless 2915ABG [Calexico2] Network Connection [8086:4223] (rev 05)
 lspci -knn: 	Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1001]
 lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: ipw2200
 lspci -knn: 01:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Texas Instruments
 TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) [104c:8023]
 lspci -knn: 	Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Device [1584:7000]
 lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci
 lspci -knn: 01:0c.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor
 Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ [10ec:8139] (rev 10)
 lspci -knn: 	Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Device [1584:9700]
 lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: 8139too
 lsmod: Module                  Size  Used by
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 lsmod: qnx4                    7524  0
 lsmod: ntfs                  173224  0
 lsmod: dm_mod                 49216  0
 lsmod: md_mod                 76204  0
 lsmod: xfs                   420892  0
 lsmod: exportfs                3588  1 xfs
 lsmod: reiserfs              184584  0
 lsmod: jfs                   142524  0
 lsmod: ext4                  191052  1
 lsmod: jbd2                   46172  1 ext4
 lsmod: crc16                   1760  1 ext4
 lsmod: ext3                  105084  0
 lsmod: jbd                    36756  1 ext3
 lsmod: ext2                   52496  0
 lsmod: mbcache                 6496  3 ext4,ext3,ext2
 lsmod: ipw2200               119932  0
 lsmod: libipw                 24544  1 ipw2200
 lsmod: lib80211                6192  2 ipw2200,libipw
 lsmod: nls_cp437               5244  0
 lsmod: sd_mod                 28552  0
 lsmod: crc_t10dif              1556  1 sd_mod
 lsmod: vfat                    8492  0
 lsmod: fat                    40852  1 vfat
 lsmod: 8139cp                 17472  0
 lsmod: 8139too                21120  0
 lsmod: mii                     4620  2 8139cp,8139too
 lsmod: nls_utf8                1416  0
 lsmod: isofs                  27040  0
 lsmod: nls_base                6136  7
 ntfs,jfs,nls_cp437,vfat,fat,nls_utf8,isofs
 lsmod: firewire_sbp2          12776  0
 lsmod: ide_generic             1744  0 [permanent]
 lsmod: usb_storage            48088  0
 lsmod: scsi_mod              131736  3 sd_mod,firewire_sbp2,usb_storage
 lsmod: fan                     3984  0
 lsmod: usbhid                 30716  0
 lsmod: hid                    34232  1 usbhid
 lsmod: ide_cd_mod             24340  0
 lsmod: ide_gd_mod             19580  3
 lsmod: cdrom                  30280  1 ide_cd_mod
 lsmod: pcmcia                 23052  0
 lsmod: uhci_hcd               18800  0
 lsmod: piix                    5568  2
 lsmod: ehci_hcd               29608  0
 lsmod: yenta_socket           21012  1
 lsmod: rsrc_nonstatic          9580  1 yenta_socket
 lsmod: pcmcia_core            30924  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
 lsmod: firewire_ohci          18932  0
 lsmod: ide_core               87088  4
 ide_generic,ide_cd_mod,ide_gd_mod,piix
 lsmod: firewire_core          37456  2 firewire_sbp2,firewire_ohci
 lsmod: crc_itu_t               2072  1 firewire_core
 lsmod: usbcore               125000  5 usb_storage,usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
 lsmod: thermal                12480  0
 lsmod: thermal_sys            13004  2 fan,thermal
 df: Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
 df: tmpfs                   509528       140    509388   0% /dev
 df: /dev/hda5             17299004   4358584  12061668  27% /target
 df: /dev/hda5             17299004   4358584  12061668  27% /dev/.static/dev
 df: tmpfs                   509528       140    509388   0% /target/dev
 free:               total         used         free       shared
 buffers
 free:   Mem:      1019060       858892       160168            0
  4088
 free:  Swap:      1269092            0      1269092
 free: Total:      2288152       858892      1429260
 pccardctl status: Socket 0:
 pccardctl status:   no card
 pccardctl ident: Socket 0:
 pccardctl ident:   no product info available
 /proc/cmdline: vga=788 initrd=/install.386/initrd.gz -- quiet
 BOOT_IMAGE=/install.386/vmlinuz
 /proc/cpuinfo: processor	: 0
 /proc/cpuinfo: vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
 /proc/cpuinfo: cpu family	: 6
 /proc/cpuinfo: model		: 13
 /proc/cpuinfo: model name	: Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor         1.40GHz
 /proc/cpuinfo: stepping	: 8
 /proc/cpuinfo: cpu MHz		: 1399.900
 /proc/cpuinfo: cache size	: 1024 KB
 /proc/cpuinfo: fdiv_bug	: no
 /proc/cpuinfo: hlt_bug		: no
 /proc/cpuinfo: f00f_bug	: no
 /proc/cpuinfo: coma_bug	: no
 /proc/cpuinfo: fpu		: yes
 /proc/cpuinfo: fpu_exception	: yes
 /proc/cpuinfo: cpuid level	: 2
 /proc/cpuinfo: wp		: yes
 /proc/cpuinfo: flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr
 pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe bts
 /proc/cpuinfo: bogomips	: 2799.80
 /proc/cpuinfo: clflush size	: 64
 /proc/cpuinfo: power management:
 /proc/cpuinfo:
 /proc/ioports: 0000-001f : dma1
 /proc/ioports: 0020-0021 : pic1
 /proc/ioports: 0040-0043 : timer0
 /proc/ioports: 0050-0053 : timer1
 /proc/ioports: 0060-0060 : keyboard
 /proc/ioports: 0064-0064 : keyboard
 /proc/ioports: 0070-0071 : rtc0
 /proc/ioports: 0080-008f : dma page reg
 /proc/ioports: 00a0-00a1 : pic2
 /proc/ioports: 00c0-00df : dma2
 /proc/ioports: 00f0-00ff : fpu
 /proc/ioports: 0170-0177 : 0000:00:1f.1
 /proc/ioports:   0170-0177 : piix
 /proc/ioports: 01f0-01f7 : 0000:00:1f.1
 /proc/ioports:   01f0-01f7 : piix
 /proc/ioports: 0200-020f : pnp 00:07
 /proc/ioports: 0376-0376 : 0000:00:1f.1
 /proc/ioports:   0376-0376 : piix
 /proc/ioports: 03c0-03df : vesafb
 /proc/ioports: 03f6-03f6 : 0000:00:1f.1
 /proc/ioports:   03f6-03f6 : piix
 /proc/ioports: 0400-047f : 0000:00:1f.0
 /proc/ioports:   0400-047f : pnp 00:07
 /proc/ioports:     0400-0403 : ACPI PM1a_EVT_BLK
 /proc/ioports:     0404-0405 : ACPI PM1a_CNT_BLK
 /proc/ioports:     0408-040b : ACPI PM_TMR
 /proc/ioports:     0420-0420 : ACPI PM2_CNT_BLK
 /proc/ioports:     0428-042f : ACPI GPE0_BLK
 /proc/ioports: 04d0-04d1 : pnp 00:07
 /proc/ioports: 0500-053f : 0000:00:1f.0
 /proc/ioports:   0500-053f : pnp 00:07
 /proc/ioports: 0860-0866 : pnp 00:07
 /proc/ioports: 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1
 /proc/ioports: 1100-113f : pnp 00:08
 /proc/ioports: 1254-1254 : pnp 00:08
 /proc/ioports: 12d4-12d4 : pnp 00:08
 /proc/ioports: 1300-1375 : pnp 00:08
 /proc/ioports: 1377-137f : pnp 00:08
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 /proc/ioports:   c800-c8ff : 0000:01:0c.0
 /proc/ioports:     c800-c8ff : 8139too
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 /proc/ioports: e480-e49f : 0000:00:1d.0
 /proc/ioports:   e480-e49f : uhci_hcd
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 /proc/ioports: ffa0-ffaf : 0000:00:1f.1
 /proc/ioports:   ffa0-ffaf : piix
 /proc/iomem: 00000000-0000ffff : reserved
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 /proc/iomem: 40000000-43ffffff : PCI Bus 0000:01
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 /proc/iomem:     ffbfe400-ffbfe4ff : 8139too
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 /proc/iomem: ffe00000-ffe7ffff : 0000:00:02.1
 /proc/iomem: ffe80000-ffefffff : 0000:00:02.0
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 /proc/interrupts:            CPU0
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 ipw2200, eth0
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 firewire_ohci, uhci_hcd:usb4
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 /proc/meminfo: HugePages_Surp:        0
 /proc/meminfo: Hugepagesize:       4096 kB
 /proc/meminfo: DirectMap4k:        8184 kB
 /proc/meminfo: DirectMap4M:      901120 kB
 /proc/bus/input/devices: I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
 /proc/bus/input/devices: N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
 /proc/bus/input/devices: P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
 /proc/bus/input/devices: S:
 Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input0
 /proc/bus/input/devices: U: Uniq=
 /proc/bus/input/devices: H: Handlers=kbd
 /proc/bus/input/devices: B: EV=120013
 /proc/bus/input/devices: B: KEY=4 2000000 3803078 f800d001 feffffdf
 ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
 /proc/bus/input/devices: B: MSC=10
 /proc/bus/input/devices: B: LED=7
 /proc/bus/input/devices:
 /proc/bus/input/devices: I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c019 Version=0111
 /proc/bus/input/devices: N: Name="Logitech USB Optical Mouse"
 /proc/bus/input/devices: P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.0-2/input0
 /proc/bus/input/devices: S:
 Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/input/input1
 /proc/bus/input/devices: U: Uniq=
 /proc/bus/input/devices: H: Handlers=mouse0
 /proc/bus/input/devices: B: EV=17
 /proc/bus/input/devices: B: KEY=ff0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
 /proc/bus/input/devices: B: REL=143
 /proc/bus/input/devices: B: MSC=10
 /proc/bus/input/devices:

 -- System Information:
 Debian Release: squeeze/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
 Architecture: i386 (i686)

 Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
 Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
 Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash



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Re: [RFC] Degrading reiserfs to optional filesystem?

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 07:55:19PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
 What do people think of degrading reiserfs support to optional, i.e. only
 usable by specifically selecting partman-reiserfs in anna?

 The rationale would be that its popularity has decreased (AFAIK), upstream
 development is not very active and that more (and better?) alternatives
 are available now than there used to be when reiserfs was quite popular.

 IMO its relevance for new installs for Squeeze could be minor.

 OTOH, it's popcon stats are not yet decreasing [1], but "recent usage" is
 very low and popcon will lag anyway.

 Cheers,
 FJP

 [1] http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=reiserfsprogs


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Re: Bug#433568: VLANs during install are important

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 02:22:34PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote:
 On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 08:41:25PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:

  At any rate, the size of the initrd isn't a download problem so much as an
  installer memory footprint problem -- which isn't mitigated by using an
  install CD.
  [ ... ]
    We usually don't do make such changes lightly.
   I guess this decision is not up to me. ;-)
  No, but you can help the decision be made by demonstrating precisely how
  much of a "cost" there actually is by building up a customised installer
  and presenting the appropriate statistics.

 On i386, the cost would be about:

    50244 bytes for the kernel modules
  +  8224 bytes for vconfig (might be reduced by using vconfig from busybox)
  +  1000 bytes for necfg changes (this is an estimation)
  + ????? for the udeb packaging (does this count? It don't end up in initrd)

 So the unpacked initrd size would be increased by ca. 60 kbytes.

 But cost is not the only criteria, I think. Benefit is another one. Install
 over vlan is not exactly a common use case. Up to now, I've seen only 5
 people showing interest into this topic at all: Luca, Philipp, Robert,
 Ferenc and me. This is probably not _that_ mass of request that would
 justify _any_ cost?

 Given the initrd increase, I think we should drop the idea about integration
 into d-i. I don't know about the other four people, but I build customized
 install CDs anyway, and I have integrated vlan-install already into them
 (though the integration is not as clean yet as it should be for d-i)


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Re: dvi2ps in squeeze

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:09:21AM +0000, T o n g wrote:
 Hi,

 I found dvi2ps in squeeze is not installable:

  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  dvi2ps: Depends: libkpathsea4 (>= 2007) but it is not installable

 Is it only me?

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