Re: Wheezy removed ifupdown
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2012 16:07:52 +0000 (UTC)
> Ramon Hofer <ramonhofer@bluewin.ch> wrote:
>>
>> But the problem is when I do a dist-upgrade it will ignore the
>> ifupdown package? Should I now just install the package with apt-get
>> again? And why did this happen?
>
> It happened because you upgraded netbase, which arrived in wheezy before
> the required version of ifupdown migrated. I spotted this myself.
> Simply by waiting 24 hrs, the relevant version of ifupfown migrated, and
> the next package upgrade passed without issue. To avoid problems, make
> sure the version of ifupdown that you (re)install is 0.7~rc3.
>
> Hopefully, you can learn a useful lesson from this; Don't blindly
> accept every change apt-get wants to make. Especially if it's a package
> removal.
Especially since apt warns you that it's about to remove ifupdown...
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