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Re: woody upgrade fails horribly



On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 09:10:23PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Have you seen my recent postings on this subject?

After I started :-(

> Did you upgrade apt and dpkg before you did the dist-upgrade?

I upgraded apt first, but not dpkg.

> If you didn't do this, many things break on install. These breakages are
> not the fault of the packages that get involved, but the fault of an old,
> incapable apt-get. The newest version works much better.

There realy needs to be a working upgrade solution.  Perhaps have
stratigicly chosen packages pre-depend on recent apt & dpkg? 

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