Re: upgrading libc4

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

David Engel writes on debian-user:
> >   Yesterday, I tried to upgrage from libc4-4.6.27-6 to libc4-4.6.27-11 without
> > success :-(
> > dpkg signals an error because libc4 conflicts with libc4 !
> > How can I successfully upgrade this package, without breaking my linux box
> > since most of all programs depends from libc ?
> 
> Ian Jackson can probably tell you a better way, but the following
> should work.  Run 'dpkg --purge --force-depends libc' followed by
> 'dpkg --install libc4-4.6.27-11.deb'.

Huh ?  You made the libc4 package conflict with itself ?  Why ?

As far as I can see the `better way' is not to put that in the libc4
coontrol file ...

Ian.