Re: Failed upgrade bo->hamm with apt
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> writes:
> On 21 May 1998, Sven Rudolph wrote:
>
> > > Well, this isn't pretty. You didn't say what installation method you used,
> > > but it sounds like dselect-upgrade. What happened is this,
> > >
> > > dselect marked libreadline for removal (this is what caused the failure)
> > > to remove libreadline we have to install a new bash
> > > to install a new bash we have to install libreadlineg
> > > to install libreadlineg we need to remove libreadline
> >
> > Last is wrong: To install libreadlineg we need to update libreadline.
> >
> > libreadlineg2 conflicts with older versions of libreadline2:
> > Conflicts: libreadline2 (<< 2.1-2.1)
> >
> > The libreadline2 in oldlibs is >= 2.1-2.1, so it doesn't conflict with
> > libreadlineg2.
>
> Yes, but the user has said they want it removed - I'm not about to
> download and install a new package just to remove it in a few seconds,
> that adds far too much complication at this point - I also think it's not
> usefull for anything but this single case.
It's a bit weird to download a package in order to remove it soon -
agreed. But I won't call this a complication. While it wastes some
network bandwidth it is the only correct solution according to the
dependency tree.
I beg you to reconsider ...
Sven
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Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>
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