Re: new tar wants to remove my kernel!
On 30-Nov-2001 David Wright wrote:
>
> I am running testing with kernel 2.4.12. Get this...
>
> debian:/home/ichbin# apt-get install tar
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> build-essential cpio debhelper debmake devscripts dh-make dpkg-dev
> initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4.12-k6
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
> Need to get 492kB of archives. After unpacking 23.7MB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
> Abort.
>
> Whatsup with that?! The bug database for tar seems to indicate that a
> recent conflict with cpio has been resolved, but I'd say a conflict with
> my kernel is much more serious. I am not able to trace the path of
> incompatibility. Does anyone know what's going on here?
>
Fixed in unstable, now testing is getting it. Either wait a day (or two) or
install the cpio from unstable.
The kernel depends on cpio (or some thing else forces the kernel out when cpio
is removed).
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