On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 08:18:51AM -0500, Henry White wrote: > I was about to do apt-get -f dist-upgrade from slink to woody > when I got this: > > WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed > This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! > getty > 143 packages upgraded, 34 newly installed, 3 to remove and 1 not upgraded. > 2 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 35.0MB of archives. After unpacking 21.9MB will be used. > You are about to do something potentially harmful > To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, I understand this may be bad' > [?] > > Curiously, getty is the latest version. So what's the secret to getting > around this problem? It appears that getty is now a part of util-linux, as of version 2.7.1-1. The current version in woody (2.10f-2) has Conflicts and Replaces lines for getty. Maybe apt-get should realize the Replaces and make note of it. "util-linux claims to replace getty" or something similar. -- finger for GPG public key. 8 Jan 2000 - Old email addresses removed from key, new added
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