Re: dselect
JParker@coinstar.com wrote:
> G'Day !
>
> I forget which package it choked on (maybe libpam0) ... basically a package
> needs libpam0 but libpam0 cann't update till I've upgraded the other package, a
> real Catch-22. So now it is stuck in this limbo state of packages installed but
> not configured properly.
>
> When I went back thru the documentation ... it warned me of this, I just did not
> read it. My mistake, getting too lazy to read manuals.
Right, but I've had this problem with "apt-get dist-upgrade" too. That's not a
dselect problem at all.
This is why one has to be careful about holding -all debs which interdepend with
-i386 (or whatever) debs, like when locales-2.2 recently came out before most
arches' libc6-2.2.
I guess Intel users have the luxury of not having to worry about this too much
since most devs upload i386 debs, but us non-i386 unstable users (like pre-potato
PPC and ARM) have *always* had this problem for *almost all* packages.
Any other "dselect bugs" out there?
-Adam P.
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