Re: That **** symlink problem
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 02:11:09PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote:
> > I just got it, on a potato system.
> >
> > Because of the -9 breakage, I had had my X packages on hold. I just
> > upgraded from -8 to -10 (this is all 3.3.2.3a), and I'm seeing quite a few
> > of the infamous circular symlink problems:
> >
> > The output from dpkg, FWIW, is included as a (small) attachment.
>
> I've actually already addressed this in what will be -11. I realized after
> releasing -10 that I never told xbase-clients to replace old versions of
> xserver-common. Oops.
Yeah... there were quite a few force-overwrite type things going on
there..
>
> I'm hoping the dpkg circular symlink problem can be resolved by having
> packages conflict with old versions of other packages in addition to
> replacing them. Knock wood...
OK. Any reason for me to keep my system frozen, or shall I give it
another go? (It needs another go to properly install xlib)
I was vaguely keeping it frozen in case the contents of my dpkg databases
meant something to someone..
> Anyway, -11 (or 10pre11v1) will contain these changes to the control file.
Well, I'm on #debian (quicksilv, you're talking to me about kaffe..), so
lob me the prereleases if you make them today.
Jules
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