Re: Force dpkg to install newer package
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 02:43:45PM +0100, Marcel Lemmen wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> !>You'll need to get a tar binary that works with the stable libc6
> !>instead. I've put /bin/tar from 1.13.25-2 (woody/i386) here:
> !>
> !> http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/tar
> !>
> !>Download that, move it to /bin/tar, reinstall the tar package from woody
> !>so that everything is consistent, and continue.
>
> Great, this workes... Thanx!
Cool. I've deleted that tar binary.
> Why doesn't dpkg give a warning if you downgrade this? It seems some
> dependancies are not checked or something like that...
Hm, this may be a long-standing bug actually. Dependencies aren't
checked on downgrade as well as they might be (one of the reasons why
downgrades aren't really supported).
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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