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Re: Bug#56431: apt: apt-get source while an install is running...



On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Madarasz Gergely wrote:
> 
> > $ apt-get source krb4
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > E: Package file /var/lib/dpkg/status is out of sync.
> > 
> > I don't see why it should check anything in status for downloading
> > sources...
> 
> It needs to know what version/source package to download. How on earth did

why on earth does it need the dpkg status file for that ? 

> you get that? It is supposed to rebuild on conditions like that. Are you
> running dpkg at the same time or something?

yep, I was running an install at the same time on the other terminal ...

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