Re: XFree86 4.2.1-4pre5v1 (source,powerpc) at the X Strike Force
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 11:36:10AM -0500, Daniel T. Chen wrote:
> > As noted in #xfree86, I only ran across one minor issue when
> > upgrading from 4.2.1-4: xprt-common wasn't installed when I tried
> > to upgrade xprt, so configuration of both xprt and x-window-
> > system failed. That has been temporarily worked around by removing
> > both.
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Drew Parsons wrote:
> If I'm interpreting the situation correctly, this isn't actually an error.
> You're downloading the debs and installing with dpkg -i, correct?
> But dpkg does not handle dependencies (dselect, apt-get do handle them), so
> the xprt-common package (not part of xfree86) is not downloaded and
> installed, hence the error you saw.
>
> Once 4.2.1-5 is uploaded to the servers, apt-get should grab xprt-common along
> with the new xprt, fulfilling the dependency.
>
> But you really want xprt-xprintorg, not xprt ;)
Yep, I know it's not a error, and Branden made note of this in #xfree86
as well. I just couldn't be bothered to install xprt*.
-Dan
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