Re: Package epochs and broken upgrades

2003-02-02 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 08:15, Ben Burton wrote: > > > Perhaps I should just bite the bullet and put a 4: epoch on all of the > > > packages that are going into sid. Though in general there have been so > > > > Yes, that is the best thing to do. > > Yep, I'm going to do that. After all, our users are

Re: Package epochs and broken upgrades

2003-02-02 Thread Ben Burton
> > Perhaps I should just bite the bullet and put a 4: epoch on all of the > > packages that are going into sid. Though in general there have been so > > Yes, that is the best thing to do. Yep, I'm going to do that. After all, our users are our priority, etc etc etc, and this will at least hel

Re: Package epochs and broken upgrades

2003-02-01 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 00:17, Ben Burton wrote: > Perhaps I should just bite the bullet and put a 4: epoch on all of the > packages that are going into sid. Though in general there have been so Yes, that is the best thing to do. When I started maintaining KDE packages some of them had an epoch of 4:

Re: Package epochs and broken upgrades

2003-02-01 Thread Simon Hepburn
Ben Burton wrote: > This means that your system will *not* smoothly upgrade to the 3.1 > packages that will be uploaded to sid. In this case probably the > easiest solution is to remove all of the affected packages and then > reinstall them as you normally would in dselect or whatever package > m

Package epochs and broken upgrades

2003-02-01 Thread Ben Burton
Hi all. I've had a couple of instances of this problem land in my inbox just this morning so I figured I'd send a general mailout in the hope of reducing the problem. Various unofficial package repositories have at various times used the incorrect epochs in their package versions. An epoch is t