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Re: apt-get acting up (woody)



on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:03:12PM +0100, Lupe Christoph (lupe@lupe-christoph.de) wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Last night apt-get decided to make my life even more miserable ;-)
> 
> It wants to remove my kernel and a number of other packages:
> 
> arachne:/home/lupe# apt-get --no-remove dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Calculating Upgrade... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   cpio debhelper dpkg-dev i2c-source initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4.10-k6 kernel-package lm-sensors-source 
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 8 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
> E: Packages need to be removed but Remove is disabled.
> 
> Also, it has decided tar needs some work:
> 
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages have been kept back
>   tar 
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1  not upgraded.

> But AFAICT, tar is up to date:

There are some current issues involving tar and cpio in unstable.  See
list archives (and current discussion) for specifics.

In the meantime, put all packages you *don't* want removed on 'hold'
with dpkg --set-selections.

Peace.

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