Re: bad archive handling (was: Re: GNOME 2.8 on ia64 completely hosed?)
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 03:30:46 +0100, Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> No the real solution to this is to have the archive software accept multiple
> copies of a same package, and not remove the older arch:all packages when
> there are still arch:any package from the same source package in the archive.
...
> This is a recurring problem though.
Yes, this is why the dselect desktop installation fails on Debian 3.1
Ultrasparc -- required packages are no longer available. Hence no
upgrade path.
Or just use the CLI like I have been now for a year almost.
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