Re: Woody Upgrade Question
>>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick Dahiroc <pdahiroc@yahoo.com> writes:
Patrick> are the packages sysvinit and linux-util suppose to be
Patrick> removed when upgrading from potato to woody?
Patrick> apt-get gave me the warning:
Patrick> WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed
Patrick> This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you
Patrick> are doing! sysvinit util-linux (due to sysvinit)
Patrick> when i simulated the dist-upgrade.
I believe the answer you are after is: NO!
sysvinit especially, contains files (on my woody system) that look
really important, eg /sbin/init, shutdown, etc. Your system will not
boot without /sbin/init.
Try and find out why apt-get wants to remove these packages. eg. What
happens if you type in:
apt-get install sysvinit linux-util
does that work?
--
Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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