Re: hurd upgrade
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 06:51:48PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> Hi I installed the apt package from alpha.gnu.org.
> And ran 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get upgrade'
> When it's about to install the hurd package (000921)
> I get an conflict error:
> "shellutils conflicts with login (<< 19990827-1)"
> "hurd provides login and is to be installed"
>
> "conflicting packages - not installing hurd"
>
> anyone have a clue?
Yes, it's a bug in dpkg and Ben Collins is investigating this.
When we have a solution, I will upload a new dpkg package. For now,
you can try to edit /var/lib/dpkg/status and remove the login entry in the
shellutils conflict line.
Thanks,
Marcus
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