On 30-Nov-2001 David Wright wrote: > > I am running testing with kernel 2.4.12. Get this... > > debian:/home/ichbin# apt-get install tar > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > build-essential cpio debhelper debmake devscripts dh-make dpkg-dev > initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4.12-k6 > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 to remove and 11 not upgraded. > Need to get 492kB of archives. After unpacking 23.7MB will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n > Abort. > > Whatsup with that?! The bug database for tar seems to indicate that a > recent conflict with cpio has been resolved, but I'd say a conflict with > my kernel is much more serious. I am not able to trace the path of > incompatibility. Does anyone know what's going on here? >
Fixed in unstable, now testing is getting it. Either wait a day (or two) or install the cpio from unstable. The kernel depends on cpio (or some thing else forces the kernel out when cpio is removed).