Re: emacs -> emacs19. Why?
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> writes:
> On 27 Jun 1998, Steve Dunham wrote:
>
> > I think it discovers changed names if you do a dist-upgrade. I found
> > this out when I threw experimental into my "sources.list". When I did a
> > dist-upgrade apt replaced dpkg with adpkg, a change which is very
> > difficult to reverse. (adpkg has a lot of overlaps with dpkg, and
> > instead of using diversions, it just rewrites "dpkg.list".)
> This is simple to explain. adpkg is essential, all essential packages must
> be installed [dist-upgrade assures this]. adpkg replaces and provides dpkg
> - but it does not conflict, which means any dependencies on dpkg will be
> satisfied because dpkg is still installed.
> If adpkg is as dangerous as people say then we should remove it from
> experimental.
Well, removing it is a difficult manual process, and it replaces the
dpkg binary with a libc5-based one.
> Personally I wouldn't even use experimental with APT till it gets a
> correctly formed packages file, that includes all packages and has
> an Architecture field.
I've learned this now. I have a HTTP tree for local packages, so I
can just copy desired packages from experimental to my local tree.
Steve
dunham@cps.msu.edu
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