Re: problem with apt-get upgrade

["Jeffrey L. Taylor" <jeff@austinblues.dyndns.org>]

Quoting Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 06:26:29PM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> > It is almost certainly trying to upgrade dpkg on top of itself while
> > running.
> 
> That's supported and quite OK.
> 
> > The instructions at
> > 
> > http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-package.en.html#s6.2.9
> > 
> > helped me.
> 
> There's no indication so far that dpkg is completely broken; it's just
> returning a non-zero exit code, which a perfectly functional dpkg may
> well do. We need to see the full output before resorting to drastic
> measures like this.
> 

The problem I was seeing was that I received the error everytime I ran
"aptitude upgrade" or "apt-get dist-upgrade" and the program exited
prematurely, not downgrading the 127 packages I was trying to change.
Using the bigger hammer fixed.

Jeffrey