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Re: Bug#87747: apt: fails to compare versions correctly



On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:23:17PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Sam TH wrote:
> 
> > However, removing /var/cache/apt/* and /var/state/apt/* was not
> > enought to fix it.  So either the config files were breaking this (I
> > just had apt.conf and sources.list) or the apt installation was bad.
> > I'm not sure.  
> 
> I would have liked to have seen your configuration file..

It was whatever apt installed, since I never edited it.  Unless I've
started sleepwalking.  

<sam looks now>

Hmm, seems apt doesn't install one by default.  It must have gotten
there somehow . .  Did apt 0.3.x install them by default? 

> 
> But in any event, it appears to be an odd side effect of mis
> configuration, however that is possible.

Apt::BreakPackageDependencies

> 
> I'm sure someone else will discover it if there is indeed a real issue
> here.

           
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