Re: potato upgrade, probs with perl-base

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>]

On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Pollywog wrote:

> I am getting into some kind of loop and I need to remove perl-base
> (temporarily) but it is an essential package.  The other way around this is to
> activate APT::Force LoopBreak but I don't know what that means and the apt man
> pages do not tell me what that is.

They do, it is in apt.conf

       Force-LoopBreak
              Never  Enable  this option unless you -really- know
              what you are doing. It permits APT  to  temporarily
              remove   an  essential  package  to  break  a  Con
              flicts/Conflicts   or   Conflicts/Pre-Depend   loop
              between  two essential packages. SUCH A LOOP SHOULD
              NEVER EXIST AND IS A GRAVE BUG.  This  option  will
              work  if  the essential packages are not tar, gzip,
              libc, dpkg, bash or anything  that  those  packages
              depend on.

I think you can enable it in this case, the perl situation is very
strange.

Jason