Re: dpkg problems
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> 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.
A quick initial test suggests that installing libc0.2 and hurd
simultaniously with dpkg -i works when upgrading the intitial
installation of the tarball. I am working on the F4 images at the moment.
Phil.
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