Re: Potato to Woody dist-upgrade problems
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 11:17:23PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 07:11:09PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > > xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-75dpi: are removed, but their replacement
> > > package, xfonts-base,
> >
> > xfonts-base is in NO way a replacement for -100dpi and -75dpi. All
> > three packages continue to exist in woody.
>
> So the question should be, if these packages were removed, why? Only two
> packages seem to conflict with xfonts-75dpi, and only one of those is at all
> common (xbase-clients).
>
> Conflicts: ... xfonts-75dpi (<< 3.3.3.1-3)
>
> Maybe apt is making the wrong decision about whether to remove or upgrade?
I haven't checked, but it could also be that there is not a proper
candidate in Woody yet...
> Dale, you did upgrade apt by itself before running dist-upgrade, right?
This I did not do ;-(
I'll make a not of this, and try to find a couple of days to do this
install/upgrade again...
>
> apt-get install apt dpkg
> apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> Might yield better results.
>
Thanks for this useful pointer,
Dwarf
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