Re: Updating sysvinit

["Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>]

In article <[🔎] 200312111621.32493.jtur@wanadoo.es>,
Joan Tur  <jtur@wanadoo.es> wrote:
>I installed my debian box using knoppix 3.2; now I'd like to update knoppix' 
>sysvinit to SID's (I'm only using SID repositories in sources.list and I've 
>updated using "apt-get dist-upgrade").
>
>Installed and installable version:
>- -----
>quini@quinipt:~$ apt-cache show sysvinit |grep Version
>Version: 2:2.84-164	**knoppix'

Ouch! Knoppix added an epoch to their sysvinit version. That means
apt will never ever upgrade to a normal Debian version, not even
if sysvinit reaches version 9999.9999-9999

>Version: 2.85-7		**SID's
>- -----
>
>I've also tryed running "apt-get install -t unstable sysvinit"; it says 
>everything's up to date.
>
>Any idea?  TIA  ;)

Try: dpkg -i sysvinit_2.85-7_i386.deb initscripts_2.85-7_all.deb sysv-rc_2.85-7_all.deb

Yes, you need all three packages, and you need to do that in one
single dpkg run, or things will break.

Mike.
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