What is "base"? I have three systems (hamm, slink and potato) and none of them list a package by this this name in dselect (I don't recall it from rex, either.) I do see base-files, base-passwd, xbase, etc.
Bob On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, George Bonser wrote: > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > I've just done an upgrade to slink, but when I go into dselect I > > observe that there are a number of obsolete packages: > > > > --- Obsolete and local packages present on system --- > > ----- Obsolete/local Required packages ----- > > ------- Obsolete/local Required packages in section base ------- > > *__ Req base base 1.1.0-14 <none> > > > > > > Can I purge them all? > > > > Now when I try and purge "base", I get: > > > > # dpkg --remove base > > dpkg: error processing base (--remove): > > This is an essential package - it should not be removed. > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > base > > > > Now I presume I should do some kind of forced purge, but I'm a bit > > reluctant to remove an "essential" package --- is it okay to do this? > > > > NO!!!!!!!! DO NOT REMOVE BASE! IT WILL KILL YOUR SYSTEM!!! > > Just wait, that is a known bug and is on the list of bugs that must be > fixed. Leave it until there is a solution for the problem. Otherwise you > will remove several vital packages. > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
