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Re: APT broken ?



On Friday, April 03, Jason Gunthorpe wrote
> 
> On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, G John Lapeyre wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 	I just sent some bug reports, but from the previous message re:apt
> > , I think maybe I'm wrong ? 
> > 	I couldn't get apt-get to install anything at all !
> > 	I guessed it's because it finds that my system lacks integrity :)
> > 
> > 	I edit sources.list, give 'apt-get update' , after which it tells
> > me that a few packages have dependency problems (eg lyx, nothing serious).
> > Then 'apt-get install foo' , just reminds me of all my broken packages.
> > 	Who is wrong , me or apt ?
> 
> You. You must correct the problems it lists before it will do anything.

It'd be nice if a future version of apt-get could take note of these errors 
and fix them by itself during the next upgrade/dist-uprgade-dselect-upgrade 
run, instead of aborting at the "update" phase. Don't know how hard it'd be 
to do that, though...

  Christian

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