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Re: powerpc-utils: still in limbo



I did that on my PReP machine and now it locks up tryign to set the 
hardware clock.  Since I use NTP to set the time I just took out the 
hwclock script and am now waiting for it to fsck.


On November  8, 2001 05:56 pm, Laurent de Segur wrote:
> Ron-
>
> That's tempting, and I may do that if the problem still occur in a
> couple of days. I just wanted to let people on these list who pointed
> me to sid for a solution that it still didn't simply solved this
> conflict problem. Thanks for your reply,
>
> LdS
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Golan" <rgolan@coalabs.com>
> To: <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 1:28 PM
> Subject: Re: powerpc-utils: still in limbo
>
> > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:58:27AM -0800, Laurent de Segur wrote:
> > > As for last night, trying to install testing or unstable
> > > powerpc-utils package on top of a woody freshly updated system
> > > still shows the same conflict error reported for about 10 days.
> > > Ethan's workaround of using
>
> sid
>
> > > (unstable) doesn't work and causes the same problem (conflict
> > > happens
>
> with
>
> > > '/usr/share/man/man8/clock.8.gz'.)
> >
> > I can't say its the best solution but what I did was:
> >
> > cd /var/cache/apt/archives
> > dpkg -i --force-overwrite ./powerpc-utils_1.1.3-5_powerpc.deb
> >
> >
> > --
> > Ron Golan
> > rgolan@coalabs.com
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> >
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