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Re: SOLVED: Re: Bug#8294: dpkg: Packages with epochs make old Debian installations not upgradable




On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> 
> Someone posted on debian-devel that it's even easier to do
> 	dpkg --clear-avail
> 	dpkg -i dpkg_*deb
> but I haven't tried this.

I have tried this but there are a number of things the new dpkg depends on
which have to be updated such as

ldso
libc5
libnet
perl
dpkg-ftp

I think we need to provide some way of automatizing an upgrade.


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