Re: tar conflicts with cpio
On 23-Nov-2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> On Fri, 2001-11-23 at 15:30, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>> >
>>
>> from the changelog
>> * start having tar provide rmt, which means conflicting with and replacing
>> cpio versions prior to the cutover, closes: #94257, #90794
>> * make medium urgency, since we really want this and the associated cpio
>> upload to both be in woody!
>
> Ah thanks. So this is just transient. I really should get used to
> checking the changelogs instead of just the bugpages.
>
install apt-listchanges. Lets you read the changelogs BEFORE installing the
downloads.
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