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Re: Apt is cool (yay!) - What about bo?



--On Mon, May 4, 1998 6:38 am -0700 "Joel Klecker" <jk@espy.org> wrote: 

> At 12:24 +0100 1998-05-04, Jules Bean wrote:
>>The following packages on my system are in bo but not in hamm:
>>
>>    --- Obsolete and local packages present on system ---
>>    ----- Obsolete/local Required packages -----
>>    ------- Obsolete/local Required packages in section base -------
>> *** Req base     timezone     7.55-2      <none>
>>    ----- Obsolete/local Standard packages -----
>>    ------- Obsolete/local Standard packages in section admin -------
>> *** Std admin    wg15-locale  2-5         <none>
>>    ------- Obsolete/local Standard packages in section libs -------
>> *** Std libs     libbfd2.7.0. 2.7.0.9-3   <none>
> 
> Those packages are a) superceded (the first two) or b) obsolete (the
last).
> 

Cool.  I'll kill them.

Should the first two have been "Replaces: "'ed by their successors?

And do we perhaps need a way of marking a package as Obsolete - Default
action purge - in the packages file?

Jules

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