On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 12:24:43PM +0100, Henning Glawe wrote: > I must have some supernatural powers to always attract the same bug: woodys > apt fed too short lists into dpkg and thus broke the configuration of > circular depending packages (Note: "dpkg --configure blah blubb", where blah > depends on blubb and blubb depends on blah works; if you try to run it on > each package seperately, it fails). > Sarge's apt works around this by increasing the list length fed into dpkg. > There is one case in which users can be bitten by this: when using apt-get > dist-upgrade to sarge, so when documenting the woody-sarge upgrade, it should > be at least mentioned that the user can run into this and should first > upgrade apt to solve this problem. The release notes currently recommend to use aptitude, not apt-get, for upgrading from woody to sarge. Do you know if this problem also occurs with woody's aptitude? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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