On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 10:14:56AM +0200, Hubert Palme wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > As for the rest, some just don't exist any more (e.g. data-dumper, > > gcc-doc), whereas others might be of more concern - although I'm not > > sure if anything can be done about them at this late stage. The output > > of 'apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=1 -u dist-upgrade' would be > > helpful, but if you've already upgraded then I suppose that won't be > > possible. > > That's right, my upgrade works fine now... :-) > > But I'm not sure wether the debugging 'apt-get ... dist-upgrade' would > help. The problem was the 'apt-get install apt dpkg ...' you > recommended in the release notes.
Well, it's the '-o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=1' bit that's important. Add it to whatever apt-get command is appropriate. > And removing parts of X is a real bug, I think. Sure, but difficult for anyone to find without more information, because it may depend on exactly what packages you have installed. I haven't seen this in previous upgrade tests I've done. There used to be a problem with upgrading xbase-clients, but that's fixed now. > I intent on installing the statically linked versions before doing the > next dist-upgrade. Is there any objection about that?? (There seems to > be some aversion among you developers... :-}) It should certainly get around a number of problems. > When answering, please, Cc: to me directly! You might want to consider a Mail-Followup-To: header saying that. mutt does this automatically if you tell it about a list but don't tell it you're subscribed; I don't know about other mailers. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
