Re: 1.1 -> 1.2 dselect/dpkg breaks
On Mar 19, Nathan O. Siemers wrote
> There's no big syntax error that I can see (with my uneducated eyes)
> in that area of "available",
The section before it most likely has an entry with a ':' in the version
numbering. This is a use of the new "epoch" feature in dpkg (to deal with
packages whose version numbering scheme has changed), which causes problems
with older dpkgs.
> and now dpkg won't run because of the problem. How do I work around this?
> Delete available for now? Thanks for any help!
I recently did an 1.1->1.2 upgrade. When I encountered this problem, I
removed the offending entries in available, installed the new dpkg, and
asked dselect to update the list of available packages again.
HTH,
Ray
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