Re: problems in upgrade

Anthony Towns writes: > Are you sure this is the cause of the perl upgrade mess though? Apt tries > to immediately configure essential packages wherever possible, afaik, which > means Depends: generally end up the same as Pre-Depends: anyway, no? I'm using apt. The log I posted shows apt blowin

Re: problems in upgrade

On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:56:00PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Are you sure this is the cause of the perl upgrade mess though? Apt tries > > to immediately configure essential packages wherever possible, afaik, which > > means Depends: general

Re: problems in upgrade

Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are you sure this is the cause of the perl upgrade mess though? Apt tries > to immediately configure essential packages wherever possible, afaik, which > means Depends: generally end up the same as Pre-Depends: anyway, no? I'm using apt. The log I pos

Re: problems in upgrade

Anthony Towns wrote: > Aha! More importantly, there's the non-essential, but required and depended > upon by perl (not perl-base) package libdb2, which doesn't Pre-Depend: on > libc6. Correct. > I think what's happening is that: >/usr/bin/perl (provided by perl-base.deb) is essential a

Re: problems in upgrade

Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aha! More importantly, there's the non-essential, but required and depended > upon by perl (not perl-base) package libdb2, which doesn't Pre-Depend: on > libc6. Correct. > I think what's happening is that: >/usr/bin/perl (provided by perl-base

Re: problems in upgrade

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 05:26:33PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > There are three other essential packages in unstable which depend on > libc6 without using a Pre-Depends, namely base-passwd_3.2.1, > hostname_2.08 and ncurses-bin_5.2.20010318-2. Aha! More importantly, there's the non-essential, but

Re: problems in upgrade

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 05:26:33PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > There are three other essential packages in unstable which depend on > libc6 without using a Pre-Depends, namely base-passwd_3.2.1, > hostname_2.08 and ncurses-bin_5.2.20010318-2. Aha! More importantly, there's the non-essential, bu

Re: Waiting for Godout

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 03:01:25PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I know ... we are really waiting on boot floppies, but it seems very > Sartrean. Shouldn't be waiting too much longer. The install report looks good, although as you can see I changed bits of it to taste. What do you think about an h