Re: new tar wants to remove my kernel!
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 09:49:26PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
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| 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.
chain reaction :
| The kernel depends on cpio (or some thing else forces the kernel out
| when cpio is removed).
just leave tar alone until 'apt-get upgrade' is happy to upgrade it
for you.
-D
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