On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 12:24:43PM +0100, Henning Glawe wrote: > > > I must have some supernatural powers to always attract the same bug: woodys > > apt fed too short lists into dpkg and thus broke the configuration of > > circular depending packages (Note: "dpkg --configure blah blubb", where blah > > depends on blubb and blubb depends on blah works; if you try to run it on > > each package seperately, it fails). > > Sarge's apt works around this by increasing the list length fed into dpkg. > > > There is one case in which users can be bitten by this: when using apt-get > > dist-upgrade to sarge, so when documenting the woody-sarge upgrade, it > > should > > be at least mentioned that the user can run into this and should first > > upgrade apt to solve this problem. > > The release notes currently recommend to use aptitude, not apt-get, for > upgrading from woody to sarge. Do you know if this problem also occurs with > woody's aptitude?
Yes, it should, as it uses libapt-pkg to call dpkg. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
