Re: tar conflicts with cpio
On 23-Nov-2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> What's the story with tar? The new package conflicts with cpio, and by
> extension much of GNOME. I'm not aware of inherent conflicts between
> cpio and tar: in my experience they are orthogonal or at least
> complementary. Why do they now conflict?
>
tar conflicts with cpio (<= 2.4.2-38)
The probable cause is tar and cpio swapped a file. Without the conflicts dpkg
would complain about a file in one package appearing in the other. I am
currently unable to download the source for tar to check its changelog.
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