Re: problems with e2fsprogs - conflicts/pre-depeds loop
Raj Kombiyil wrote:
> Fellow uber-debianers,
> I have a problem with e2fsprogs. (Trying to install uni2ascii for
> example, which depends on e2fsprogs)
> My environment: Debian gnu/linux testing/unstable, Kernel version
> 2.4.27(home brewed), libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22, sysvinit 2.84-2woody1
>
> my sources.list
> =========
> <snip>
> #security
> deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
> # the main Debian packages.
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free
> # the non-US Debian packages.
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib
> non-free
> #Blackdown Java
> deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/java/debian/ sarge non-free
> </snip>
> ========
> I have checked the earlier posts to this forum and it seems like this
> is more of a problem of mixing distributions than anything to do with
> the package. I have always used testing/unstable without any major
> difficulties and recently with the release of SARGE I tweaked the
> sources.list to point to the non-us "stable" distribution and forgot
> about it, which might have caused the problem. All my work resides on
> this system and I am "short of time". So without harming my
> environment, is there a way around this problem - i.e; to fix --->
> ---
> E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the
> essential package e2fsprogs due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This
> is often bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the
> APT::Force-LoopBreak option.
> E: Internal Error, Could not early remove e2fsprogs
> --
> Any advice/suggestions welcome.
> Thanks in advance,
> Raj
> ps: I am not subscribed to the list, so I would appreciate it if you
> could kindly mail me offlist.
>
>
> --
> You have to be what you don't want to be, in order to be what you want
> to be!
The only way I've been able to fix this problem (usually encountered
when upgrading a "testing" distro) was to set "APT::Force-LoopBreak" in
/etc/apt/apt.conf
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Mitch Wiedemann
Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Association
http://ithacafreesoftware.org
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