Re: About the Breaks: field.
On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:
> Is the "Breaks:" field going to be implemented in
> dpkg | dselect | deity | pkg-order ?
>
> How many packages does libc6 break? Will the upgrade be really smooth
> without this "Breaks" field or it will only work if you upgrade
> *everything*? It will be possible to install only a limited set of
> packages from hamm without breaking anything?
libc6 breaks nothing. Installing other stuff in the wrong order breaks
stuff. Follow my libc5-libc6 mini-howto for debian (located on my web
page) and you shouldn't have any problems.
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Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net> http://www.gate.net/~storm/
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