Re: Broken Debian Installations

2000-01-31 Thread Fam. Engelen
> I'd also recommend staying away from dselect. apt-get upgrade > will allow you to break out in the cases where some new package > decides it wants to remove dozens of conflicting packages. > Dselect seems to just go ahead and do it. Huh? When I de-select something that is depended on, dselect

Re: Broken Debian Installations

2000-01-31 Thread Brad
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 12:44:08PM -0800, rick wrote: > > I'd also recommend staying away from dselect. apt-get upgrade > will allow you to break out in the cases where some new package > decides it wants to remove dozens of conflicting packages. > Dselect seems to just go ahead and do it. Read

Re: Broken Debian Installations

2000-01-30 Thread rick
Pavel Epifanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > Dear Brian, > > I understand that POTATO is not released yet. But still this > situation with broken installations was repeated several times for last > months: > > 1) unknown script had changed a permission of root directory > 2) kbd script asked

Broken Debian Installations

2000-01-30 Thread Pavel Epifanov
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, brian moore wrote: >=The upgrade of libc6 will delete libc6-bin, which will removed >=netscape-base-4, which will remove the rest of netscape. Dear Brian, I understand that POTATO is not released yet. But still this situation with broken installations was repeated several ti