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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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