Re: timezone -> timezones (why?)
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On 24 Feb 1998, Sven Rudolph wrote:
> David Welton <davidw@gate.cks.com> writes:
>
> > It was my impression that even if we use pre-depends with all the hamm
> > base packages (depending on some 'improved' dpkg), that we just can't
> > guarantee things will go the way we want.
>
> Can someone comment whether pre-depends will do everything we need?
Well, dpkg have always *refused* to install a package if a pre-dependency
is not satisfied.
If we agree on having the Pre-Depends field for all essential packages
(as it has been discussed in debian-policy), then I think the upgrade
*should* work *even* if dselect is used to do the upgrade [*].
Quoting from the Debian FAQ: "The Debian project provided this mechanism
to support the safe upgrading of systems from a.out format to ELF format,
where the order in which packages were unpacked was critical."
[*] It may require, however, several "passes", but it should not break
the system in any case.
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