Updating to Cockpit 329 removes cockpit-pcp

[compbl]

When I attempt to update to Cockpit 3.29 via the software updates page I am receiving an error "The following packages have unmet dependencies: cockpit-bridge: Conflicts: cockpit-pcp" I am assuming I have to remove cockpit-pcp, but cannot find how to do that. Any help would be appceiated. Running on Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Thanks

[martinpitt]

Right, the cockpit-pcp package is obsolete, and should be removed on upgrades. See https://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-326.html . How exactly did you try to upgrade, and what did it say?

[compbl]

I am doing the upgrade from within Cockpit itself.

[martinpitt]

Ah, thanks @compbl ! I'm starting from the basics, booted a clean 22.04 machine with some cockpit packages installed:

# dpkg -l | grep ^ii.*cockpit
ii  cockpit                                          264-1ubuntu0.22.04.1                    all          Web Console for Linux servers
ii  cockpit-bridge                                   264-1ubuntu0.22.04.1                    amd64        Cockpit bridge server-side component
ii  cockpit-pcp                                      264-1ubuntu0.22.04.1                    amd64        Cockpit PCP integration
ii  cockpit-system                                   264-1ubuntu0.22.04.1                    all          Cockpit admin interface for a system
ii  cockpit-ws             

and apt itself can do it fine:

 apt upgrade -t jammy-backports cockpit
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
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The following packages will be REMOVED:
  cockpit-pcp
The following packages will be upgraded:
  cockpit cockpit-bridge cockpit-system cockpit-ws dmidecode libdebuginfod-common libdebuginfod1 libdw1 libelf1 libsoup-gnome2.4-1
  libsoup2.4-1 libsoup2.4-common needrestart

Setting up your scenario (older backport) is a bit more effort, I'll do that later.

[compbl]

Is it suggestable to do the apt upgrade -t jammy-backports cockpit ?

[martinpitt]

That'll circumvent the bug and update it on the command line, so that will work for you.

[compbl]

Worked... Thank You!

[martinpitt]

Moved to #21344 , as that is an actual bug.