On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 09:49:26PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | | On 30-Nov-2001 David Wright wrote: | > | > I am running testing with kernel 2.4.12. Get this... | > | > debian:/home/ichbin# apt-get install tar | > Reading Package Lists... Done | > Building Dependency Tree... Done | > The following packages will be REMOVED: | > build-essential cpio debhelper debmake devscripts dh-make dpkg-dev | > initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4.12-k6 | > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 to remove and 11 not upgraded. | > Need to get 492kB of archives. After unpacking 23.7MB will be freed. | > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n | > Abort. | > | > Whatsup with that?! The bug database for tar seems to indicate that a | > recent conflict with cpio has been resolved, but I'd say a conflict with | > my kernel is much more serious. I am not able to trace the path of | > incompatibility. Does anyone know what's going on here? | | Fixed in unstable, now testing is getting it. Either wait a day (or two) or | install the cpio from unstable.
chain reaction : | The kernel depends on cpio (or some thing else forces the kernel out | when cpio is removed). just leave tar alone until 'apt-get upgrade' is happy to upgrade it for you. -D -- A)bort, R)etry, D)o it right this time
