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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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