tags 308838 confirmed reassign 308838 dpkg retitle 308838 update-alternatives reverts to 'manual' mode erroneously when intermittingly no alternative exists submitter 308838 David Everly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thanks
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 10:23:42AM -0600, David Everly wrote: > To reproduce: > > install sun-j2sdk1.5 (built from make-jpkg) > purge sun-j2sdk1.5 > install sun-j2sdk1.4 (built from make-jpkg) This is a bug in update-alternatives -- indeed, if a set of alternatives at one point in time is empty, it will revert to 'manual' mode without there actually being a manual action involved. I could reproduce the above on a clean installation. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
