Re: woody, sarge, or sid?
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:41:24PM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote:
> On Thu, 29 May 2003 20:48:58 -0400
> Chris Metzler <cmetzler@speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
> > Hope this is helpful; sorry for being long-winded.
>
> No need for apology; that was a good explanation.
>
> Once you've identified which packages apt can't deal with, you can hold them
> so dist-upgrade won't try to remove them. This way you don't need to deal
> with recurring problems each time. You can remove the holds whenever the
> dependencies get worked out, which will likely happen before too long.
>
Thanks for the good information.
I was able to resolve the problems on most of my machines using the
information from this thread.
Thanks for all the good info!
--
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neither liberty nor safety."
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