Re: What's the deal with apt, debconf and dpkg-preconfig?
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
> I got a message, that due to a perl upgrade perl-base needs
> to be temporarily removed. Furthermore some 'loop' occurred,
> and I should use APT::ForceLoopBreak. Okay, when I looked into
> the sample apt.conf, I read that I should NOT do that and the
> note pointed me to the man page. Unfortunately, I had not yet
> installed a man reader, but isn't it a contradiction between
> the example file/the man page and apt output?
This is what I wrote in the man page:
Never Enable this option unless you -really- know what you are doing. It
permits APT to temporarily remove an essential package to break a
Conflicts/Conflicts or Conflicts/Pre-Depend loop between two essential
packages. SUCH A LOOP SHOULD NEVER EXIST AND IS A GRAVE BUG. This option
will work if the essential packages are not tar, gzip, libc, dpkg, bash or
anything that those packages depend on.
This might need some tuning to be a little more lenient if Replaces is
being used, but really it isn't wise to be messing with essential packages
like that..
Jason
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