Re: dpkg problems
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:01:03AM +0200, Joachim Nilsson wrote:
> I ran into a bit of trouble due to all this. Apt-get today first upgraded
> dpkg to 1.9.17 and then wanted to upgrade the Hurd package. I got a basic
> catch-22 situation since the new dpkg wanted update-rc.d in the Hurd, but
> the Hurd was not going to be installed ... well.
>
To be honest, I knew that such problems would occure. I wanted to add a
Replace: dpkg header to the Hurd, which would make it possible to update the
Hurd package before installing dpkg. This would not have helped the
dpkg-is-upgraded-first case, though.
I think it should work to upgrade hurd first with --force-overwrite enabled,
then dpkg.
As I said before, I am not very motivated to catch and fix such transient
problems before the first release (or at least before fixation of the glibc
ABI). I am not even sure there is a fix that doesn't involve changing
dpkg.
Thanks,
Marcus
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