Re: what does [shellutils on hurd] mean?
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 12:41:52AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote:
> I got no idea what it means, but: Why the hell are you trying to do a
> dist-upgrade when you are running
> woody!?!?!?!??!?!?????????????!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, one might like the fact that dist-upgrade will make sure
dependencies are handled correctly. Possibly a good thing when tracking
and unstable branch since the dependencies sometimes change.
from apt-get upgrade man page:
under no circumstances are currently installed packages removed, or
packages not already installed retrieved and installed.
vs. dist-upgrade:
dist-upgrade,in addition to performing the function of upgrade, also
intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of packages;
> Ron Rademaker
>
> On Wed, 3 May 2000, Dan Christensen wrote:
>
> > Lately when I've been doing 'apt-get -s dist-upgrade' on my woody
> > system I often get dozens of things like
> >
> > Inst kernel-package [shellutils on hurd]
> >
> > Can someone tell me what this means? Thanks.
> >
> > Dan
Something to do with the Hurd port?? Did anything bad happen?
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