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Re: Woody to sid to Woody Dependency Hell



On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 05:28:25PM -0500, JOSEPH A NAGY JR wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 05:17:36 -0800
>  Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> wrote:
> >Don't fear the penguin!  Your best bet is to work out the
> >dependancies going to sid.  Figure out what the replacements for
> >things are along the way.  If libc got upgraded along the way
> >successfully (and it's likely it did), it will be *way* easier to
> >work it out to sid than to try to back out to woody now.
> 
> I just re-installed the base woody system. It wasn't worth it (for me) 
> to work for HOURS on figuring out all the dependencies. The only real 
> problem I had was with xlibmesa3. I kept getting an error message 
> (which I was going to type out in an email message, but I botched that 
> up and lost what I wrote and just said screw it) about the process 
> getting a signal (broken pipe) and that the paste process had been 
> killed by a signal (it was trying to replace a file that no longer 
> existed on the system).

--force-overwrite

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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