on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:03:12PM +0100, Lupe Christoph ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > Last night apt-get decided to make my life even more miserable ;-) > > It wants to remove my kernel and a number of other packages: > > arachne:/home/lupe# apt-get --no-remove dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Calculating Upgrade... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > cpio debhelper dpkg-dev i2c-source initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4.10-k6 > kernel-package lm-sensors-source > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 8 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > E: Packages need to be removed but Remove is disabled. > > Also, it has decided tar needs some work: > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages have been kept back > tar > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> But AFAICT, tar is up to date: There are some current issues involving tar and cpio in unstable. See list archives (and current discussion) for specifics. In the meantime, put all packages you *don't* want removed on 'hold' with dpkg --set-selections. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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