Re: TL2009: A general problem with the upgrade
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:20:18PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while doing some tests with full-upgrade, I discovered this and that
> file move which can easily be fixed with proper versioned
> Replaces:. However, there seems to be a more general problem:
>
> While the upgrade from an installation of "texlive" works now, the full
> upgrade fails because a lot of new packages are trying to be unpacked
> *before* texlive-base-bin and texlive-base-bin-doc are removed.
> aptitude correctly decided to remove those two, but obviously it wants
> to do so later, bevore configuring the others.
>
> It seems I have forgotten my DD lessons - what would be the correct way
> to force the removal of a package before an other one gets unpacked?
> Note that texlive-binaries is always unpacked late (so late that dpkg
> stops before that because of "too many errors").
You could do a Conflicts, or if desperate a Pre-Depends.
Julian
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